UP: Villagers voluntarily demolish madrasa, mosque, school built on Gram Sabha land in Sambhal
Sambhal (UP) (PTI): The residents of Mubarakpur Band village in Sambhal district on Sunday began demolishing a madrasa, a mosque and a primary school built illegally on encroached government using a bulldozer, officials said.
On Saturday, Haji Munawwar, the husband of the village sarpanch, had requested Tehsildar Dhirendra Kumar Singh to provide machinery to carry out the demolition work, saying manual labour alone was insufficient for the job.
On Sunday, a bulldozer was deployed in the village, paid for by the villagers, to clear the structures, including the Ghausul Madrasa, a mosque and a primary school spread over three-and-a-half bighas of Gram Sabha land.
“It would take around 20 hours to clear the structures,” Munawwar said.
“The tehsildar visited the village on Saturday, and we explained to him that demolishing the structures manually was not possible, as it would take a long time. So we requested him to provide an excavator, which arrived today. We will bear the cost for its usage," he added.
Confirming that the structures were built after encroaching on Gram Sabha land, the tehsildar said, “The villagers took the initiative to demolish the structures after realising that they were built on government land. They had requested our support to expedite the process.”
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Assam Police at Pawan Khera's residence in national capital, Delhi Police assisting
New Delhi (PTI): An Assam Police team on Tuesday is at the Delhi residence of Congress leader Pawan Khera for questioning in connection with a case linked to allegations made against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his family, official sources said.
The team formally informed Delhi Police upon arrival, following which a local police team joined and is assisting in the proceedings, the source said.
The development comes amid a political tussle after Sarma alleged that the Congress used "false information" sourced from a Pakistani social media group to level charges against his wife regarding multiple passports and overseas assets. He termed the allegations an attempt to influence the Assam elections and a punishable offence.
Khera had recently sought clarifications on Sarma's wife's alleged foreign assets, prompting a complaint and subsequent police action.
