Mukhtar aides’ illegal slaughterhouse demolished
VARANASI: A team of officials led by the city magistrate on Friday demolished an illegal slaughterhouse, which was built on green belt land in Mau by close associates of eastern UP don-turnedMLA Mukhtar Ansari’s gang, the police said. The step was taken as part of an ongoing drive against organised crime. The move comes a day after two illegally constructed buildings owned by Mukhtar Ansari’s family were razed in Lucknow’s posh Dalibagh area.
VARANASI: A team of officials led by the city magistrate on Friday demolished an illegal slaughterhouse, which was built on green belt land in Mau by close associates of eastern UP don-turnedMLA Mukhtar Ansari’s gang, the police said.
The step was taken as part of an ongoing drive against organised crime.
The move comes a day after two illegally constructed buildings owned by Mukhtar Ansari’s family were razed in Lucknow’s posh Dalibagh area.
Additional director general of police, Varanasi zone, Braj Bhushan said, “The slaughterhouse, which was built illegally on green land in Mau by close associates of the Mukhtar Ansari gang, was demolished. The slaughterhouse was illegal.”
The slaughterhouse was constructed under protection of the Mukhtar Ansari gang, he said, and added that the drive against hardcore criminals will continue. The Mau slaughterhouse was built at an estimated cost of Rs 40 lakh, another police officer said. The officer said a team led by the city magistrate, along with heavy police force, reached the slaughterhouse on Friday and demolished it.
On June 19, police took action against eight members of another slaughterhouse mafia gang which was operating a slaughterhouse in a dilapidated building of the nagar palika (municipal body) in the heart of Mau city for the last two decades under the alleged protection of the Mukhtar Ansari gang.
Five gang members, including its alleged leader Shakeel Ahmad aka Babloo, Ekhlaq Ahmad, Javed Akhtar, Abdur Rahman and Azmal Qureshi were arrested at that time under the Gangsters Act.