PRAYAGRAJ: The Prayagraj Improvement Authority (PDA) on Wednesday began demolishing the two-storey house in Chakia locality the place Shaista Parveen, spouse of mafioso-politician Atiq Ahmad, lived.
PDA vice-chairman Arvind Kumar Chauhan stated the house was being demolished as a result of it was illegally constructed in violation of the norms. “Discover was issued to the proprietor and all of the required course of was adopted,” Chauhan instructed reporters as a workforce of civic officers and police personnel reached Prayagraj’s Chakia locality with a bulldozer.
Parveen, her husband Atiq Ahmad and their two sons are accused within the homicide of lawyer Umesh Pal who was shot useless exterior his house in Prayagraj’s Sulem Sarai space on February 24. Police stated Umesh Pal was a major witness within the 2005 homicide of lawmaker Raju Pal during which Atiq and his youthful brother Khalid Azeem alias Ashraf had been the prime accused.
On Wednesday morning, the PDA workforce first pulled down the boundary wall of the house earlier than employees began bringing out the home goods and furnishings inside to arrange for the demolition. Officers stated they discovered a rifle, some dwell bullets and posters of a political occasion within the house.
Individuals acquainted with the matter stated Shaista Parveen shifted to this house after Atiq Ahmad’s house, additionally positioned in Chakia, was demolished in September 2020, additionally on the bottom that it was “illegally constructed”.
Shaista Parveen has alleged that she and her relations had been being framed within the homicide of lawyer Umesh Pal as a result of she was to be the Bahujan Samaj Get together’s (BSP) mayoral candidate for Prayagraj. She joined the BSP in January.
A primary info report was registered towards 17 folks for the homicide on a criticism by Umesh Pal’s spouse Jaya. The police criticism names Atiq Ahmad, spouse Shaista Parveen and sons, Atiq’s youthful brother Khalid Azeem aka Ashraf, amongst others. They had been booked beneath sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with lethal weapon), 149 (illegal meeting), 302 (homicide), 307 (try and homicide), 506 (felony intimidation) and 120B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Explosive Substances Act and the Felony Regulation Modification Act, police stated.
