A hotel owned by the wife and sons of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari has been demolished. (File)
Ghazipur / Ballia:
A hotel owned by the wife and sons of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari that was allegedly built illegally in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh was demolished on Sunday, an official said.
According to the sub-divisional magistrate of Ghazipur Prabhash Kumar, the plan of the Ghazal hotel, which was built on the first floor, was not approved. The owners of the hotel had a week to remove the illegal structure.
They moved the High Court, which ordered them to appeal to the district magistrate. The manager who was given 10 days to get rid of the case rejected it on Saturday and the hotel was demolished on Sunday morning, Kumar said.
BSP leader and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari accused the Adityanath government of acting with “revenge” to distract the population and hide its “failures”.
“The UP government is conspiring against my family members, including my brother (BSP deputy) Mukhtar Ansari. The demolition of a hotel in Ghazipur is the latest such activity,” Afzal Ansari told PTI in Ballia.
He accused the state government of ignoring constitutional standards and laws regarding demolition, claiming that even those convicted in the gang rape and murder case of Nirbhaya had the opportunity to appeal against the local court before the Supreme Court.
Previously, two properties worth Rs 95 lakh owned by an aide to Mukhtar Ansari, who is in prison, had been seized by Uttar Pradesh police in the past two months, officials said.
