illegal encroachment

Countering the misleading claims that the elderly woman's property was built on private land, the district administration clarified that it was government property and only an illegally built wall had been demolished

Lutfar Khan and Mahmud Khan bypassed the court proceedings and began constructing a boundary wall on the Hindi family's land on Sunday (16th February).

Exorcism is performed by constructing a tomb-like structure on houses numbered 199 and 200. Both of these homes have been given the titles Shankar Dharu and Sukhdev. However, an individual named Zakir Khan is said to have occupied these houses. Locals claim that Rohingya and Bangladeshi Muslims reside here.

On Wednesday (14th February), the Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) conducted a demolition drive to clear illegal colonies in the area.

Uttarakhand Police released a list of the names of 25 arrested accused rioters namely Junaid, Mohammad Nizam, Mehboob alias Maku, Shahzad alias Kanakada etc.

This was, however, not the first time that tensions have flared in Haldwani, Uttarakhand. Radical Islamists have targeted this place earlier too

Irked by the bulldozer action on the illegally constructed structure in Haldwani, which some labelled as a madarsa while others called it a namaz place, he threatened both PM Modi and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami with violence

Despite knowing the fact that it was the police personnel and local civic authorities who fell prey to the wrath of the Muslim mob, Haldwani Congress MLA Sumit Hridayesh has shockingly gone on to blame the Uttarakhand authorities for the violence.

90 pe cent people involved in the encroachments on the BCCL land in the Sijua region of Jharkhand are Muslims.

In Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, a female government inspector slapped a teenage girl after a verbal dispute