PRAYAGRAJ: Prayagraj district administration on Wednesday demolished a house that was occupied by jailed gangster Atiq Ahmed’s spouse and two sons.
Atiq, his spouse, brothers and sons are amongst a number of others named as accused within the crime wherein Umesh Pal, the primary witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide case, and two policemen have been killed within the metropolis on February 24.
The house in Chakia space below Dhoomanganj police station space belonged to 1 Zafar Ahmad and was constructed with no sanctioned plan, stated officers from the Prayagraj Growth Authority (PDA).
PDA vice-chairman Arvind Kumar Chauhan advised TOI that the house was demolished after the property proprietor failed to reply to repeated discover to provide the duly sanctioned plan for the property.
“This house, which was constructed over a 200-yard plot and valued at Rs 3 crore, was constructed with out getting a plan handed by the PDA. We had despatched a number of notices to the property proprietor however he had not responded,” Chauhan stated.
“The final discover was served on the proprietor in Could 2022, however there was no response,” he stated, including “the electrical energy connection on the house in query was within the title of Shaista Parveen (spouse of Atiq Ahmed) however nobody got here ahead to answer to the notices”.
A crew of PDA and the district administration together with a posse of police and PAC males reached the double-storeyed house round Wednesday midday and pressed in bulldozers and JCB machines to deliver down the constructing. Previous to the demolition, police and district administration officers searched the premises. They discovered two rifles and a sword. Paperwork discovered within the house have been additionally seized.
Although the demolition was being largely seen because the state authorities’s focused assault towards Atiq, his associates and sympathisers, police stated it was but to be established if the proprietor of the house, Zafar Ahmed, was concerned within the Friday killings. “We’re but to ascertain on report that Zafar has been concerned in any legal acts for which Atiq and his gang members have been accountable,” they stated.
Atiq’s spouse Shaista Parveen, alongside along with her two sons, was staying on the house a couple of months after Atiq’s ancestral house in the identical locality was demolished by the PDA in September 2020. Sources stated the property was nonetheless within the title of Zafar Ahmed but when a tenant produces a no-objection certificates from the house proprietor, then an influence connection within the tenant’s title may be issued as per the provisions of the ability division.
A videography of the demolition train was additionally carried out. Labourers had first shifted the family articles to an open area after which razed the house. A senior PDA official stated a complete of three JCBs have been pressed into service to deliver down the construction.
Satisfactory police forces together with personnel of the Fast Motion Power (RAF) have been deployed on the Chakia locality in the course of the demolition drive. The forces have been being deployed anticipating agitation or resistance from locals or supporters of mafia- don however nobody got here ahead to protest throughout your entire train, officers stated.
Eyewitnesses stated your entire Chakia space was was a fortress. The bulldozers first broke the boundary wall of the house to make sure entry into it.
Atiq, his spouse, brothers and sons are amongst a number of others named as accused within the crime wherein Umesh Pal, the primary witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide case, and two policemen have been killed within the metropolis on February 24.
The house in Chakia space below Dhoomanganj police station space belonged to 1 Zafar Ahmad and was constructed with no sanctioned plan, stated officers from the Prayagraj Growth Authority (PDA).
PDA vice-chairman Arvind Kumar Chauhan advised TOI that the house was demolished after the property proprietor failed to reply to repeated discover to provide the duly sanctioned plan for the property.
“This house, which was constructed over a 200-yard plot and valued at Rs 3 crore, was constructed with out getting a plan handed by the PDA. We had despatched a number of notices to the property proprietor however he had not responded,” Chauhan stated.
“The final discover was served on the proprietor in Could 2022, however there was no response,” he stated, including “the electrical energy connection on the house in query was within the title of Shaista Parveen (spouse of Atiq Ahmed) however nobody got here ahead to answer to the notices”.
A crew of PDA and the district administration together with a posse of police and PAC males reached the double-storeyed house round Wednesday midday and pressed in bulldozers and JCB machines to deliver down the constructing. Previous to the demolition, police and district administration officers searched the premises. They discovered two rifles and a sword. Paperwork discovered within the house have been additionally seized.
Although the demolition was being largely seen because the state authorities’s focused assault towards Atiq, his associates and sympathisers, police stated it was but to be established if the proprietor of the house, Zafar Ahmed, was concerned within the Friday killings. “We’re but to ascertain on report that Zafar has been concerned in any legal acts for which Atiq and his gang members have been accountable,” they stated.
Atiq’s spouse Shaista Parveen, alongside along with her two sons, was staying on the house a couple of months after Atiq’s ancestral house in the identical locality was demolished by the PDA in September 2020. Sources stated the property was nonetheless within the title of Zafar Ahmed but when a tenant produces a no-objection certificates from the house proprietor, then an influence connection within the tenant’s title may be issued as per the provisions of the ability division.
A videography of the demolition train was additionally carried out. Labourers had first shifted the family articles to an open area after which razed the house. A senior PDA official stated a complete of three JCBs have been pressed into service to deliver down the construction.
Satisfactory police forces together with personnel of the Fast Motion Power (RAF) have been deployed on the Chakia locality in the course of the demolition drive. The forces have been being deployed anticipating agitation or resistance from locals or supporters of mafia- don however nobody got here ahead to protest throughout your entire train, officers stated.
Eyewitnesses stated your entire Chakia space was was a fortress. The bulldozers first broke the boundary wall of the house to make sure entry into it.