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Gurugram: Illegal properties of 3 criminals demolished

Gurugram Police demolished illegal properties on government land, including a dairy farm linked to gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, amid ongoing crime investigations.

Published on: Apr 16, 2026, 04:34:04 IST
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The Gurugram Police along with officials from department of town and country planning (DTCP) and Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), demolished illegally constructed immovable properties on government land across the city on Wednesday, officials said.

During the demolition drive on Wednesday. (Parveen Kumar/HT)
During the demolition drive on Wednesday. (Parveen Kumar/HT)

Police said that these properties including a dairy farm, belonging to gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, houses and business establishment were constructed illegally on government land belonging to MCG or Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP).

Investigators said that Kaushal who is currently in jail was running a large dairy farm in Naharpur Rupa in Sector 37. The farm spread across 700 square yards land of HSVP is worth more than 30 crores according to the real estate rates of Gurugram, officials said.

Police said the farm’s earning was being collected by his associates. Overall, 37 criminal cases including or murder and extortion are registered against him at various police stations in Haryana, Delhi and other states.

Officials said that they demolished a two-storeyed house of a drug smuggler Gazepal alias Bhajanlal. The house, built on a 100 square yard MCG land at Fazilpur Jharsa in Badshahpur, was used by his family.

Crime branch officials said that the house was built 12 years ago illegally on government land.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of the Gurugram police, said that Gazepal had three criminal cases of drug smuggling registered against him. “The property was found to be proceeds of crime,” he said.

The third action was taken against Mahender Yadav alias Mahi, from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, who was running a drug smuggling racket in the city, police said.

“Around 1500 square yards of HSVP land near Basai flyover in Sector 10 was used to illegally construct 40 houses, which were demolished,” he said.

Turan said that at least 15 kgs of drugs and ₹13 lakh cash were recovered during a raid on one of the houses by police in 2023.

  • Debashish Karmakar
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    Debashish Karmakar

    Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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