ย Sambhal, October 2: Seeing the administrative officials arriving to demolish an illegal mosque in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh, the mosque committee asked the administration for four days to demolish the mosque. After this, the committee members themselves started demolishing the mosque. Earlier, the marriage hall built there was demolished with a bulldozer.
Tehsildar Dhirendra Pratap Singh told reporters that a marriage hall and a mosque were illegally constructed by occupying pond land in village Rayan Buzurg of Asmoli police station area. Several notices were issued to remove it, but it was not removed. On Thursday, a team from the district administration’s revenue department reached the spot with a large force to demolish the mosque and marriage hall. The Tehsildar reported that a marriage hall built on pond land was demolished with the help of a bulldozer.
The District Magistrate (DM) stated that the land belonged to the pond, with plot number 691, a 610-square-meter pond, registered in the Revenue Department’s records. A marriage hall had been built on this land after illegally occupying it, and it was demolished today.
Following the demolition of the marriage hall, the mosque’s Mutawalli, Munajir, requested four days from District Magistrate Rajendra Pansiya to personally demolish the mosque. The District Magistrate granted them four days, sternly stating that the illegal mosque built on government land must be removed. Following this, the mosque committee began demolishing the mosque itself today.
During the administration’s action, a large police force, along with Police Circle Officer Kuldeep Kumar, was present. Consequently, no one could oppose the action, and the streets of the village remained quiet. Three bulldozers and five dump trucks were deployed, removing the debris from the scene immediately.
District Magistrate Rajendra Pansiya and Superintendent of Police Krishnan Kumar Bishnoi also reached the spot during the encroachment removal operation.