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Lucknow: Police in Uttar Pradesh have filed a case against four persons for allegedly demolishing a shopkeeper’s new house with a bulldozer, The Indian Express reported.
The incident took place in the Khalilabad area of Sant Kabir Nagar district over a land dispute. No arrests have been made in the case so far.
The accused allegedly pulled down the house after the shopkeeper Ram Dayal refused to sell them a land at a throwaway price.
Police reportedly confirmed that a land dispute was underway between Ram Dayal, a resident of Saraiya village, and Ram Jatan Maurya of Uska Khurd village.
Khalilabad Station House Officer (SHO) Pankaj Pandey said that police were collecting details of the dispute between them, adding that ‘an appropriate action will be taken against the guilty for demolishing the house’.
Following the complaint by Ram Dayal’s wife Pushpa Yadav, police charged Ram Jatan Maurya, his wife Urmila Devi, Vinod Rai, Rai’s son Anurag Rai and Shubham Rai with unlawful assembly, mischief, criminal intimidation and move to provoke breach of peace.
Ram Dayal’s son Anand Yadav accused Ram Jatan of pressuring the family to sell the land.
‘We purchased a piece of land at Uska Khurd in 2016 and were constructing a house on it. The construction was completed last week,’ Anand was quoted as saying.
He said that the house was constructed after the dispute with Ram Jatan was resolved with him giving assurance that he had no objection.
Anand Yadav said that they got information about some people pulling down the house on Saturday night. When they rushed to the spot, the accused, he said, fled the scene.