WATCH | Bulldozer Action in UP’s Farrukhabad As Jailed BSP Leader’s Hotel Razed; Family Calls It ‘Unjustified’ – News18

In another bold move against illegal activities, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government on Monday demolished a multistoried hotel of gangster-turned-BSP politician Anupam Dubey in Farrukhabad. The value of the hotel, reportedly built on illegally occupied land, was reported to be Rs 20 crore.

The hotel owned by the jailed BSP leader was built allegedly on a graveyard and pond in the Thandi Sarak locality of the district, according to the revenue department.

The demolition was initiated on Monday night in the presence of heavy police security and bulldozers. Four circle officers and 400 policemen manned the roads, while Nagar Palika teams took out items from the hotel and transported them to the district authority building.

The Farrukhabad administration also made elaborate security arrangements and the entire area was cordoned off with vehicular movement stopped completely.

Dubey is currently lodged in an Agra jail and has over 60 criminal cases against him. He is associated with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and has contested assembly elections twice.

District magistrate Sanjay Kumar Singh told HT that the demolition was in line with the UP government’s model against mafias.

On the other hand, Dubey’s family called the action against them unjustified and claimed that the demolition was being carried out despite a stay order from the court.

This is not the Yogi government’s first bulldozer action against illegal construction activities by politicians.

Earlier in March, the authorities demolished jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s two-storey house in Jahangirabad. The house was under the name of Mukhtar Ansari’s sons, Abbas Ansari and Umar Ansari.

The action was initiated after it was alleged that Abbas and Umar Ansari did not get the necessary approval for building a two-storey house and neither did they get its map passed.