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Haldwani:The Haldwani district administration seems to have adopted a carrot-and-stick approach to deal with the aftermath of the violent clash that erupted last Thursday when their teams went to demolish an illegal encroachment a mosque-cum-madrasa owned by Abdul Malik in the citys Banbhoolpura area...
On the one hand, senior officials led by Nainital District Magistrate (DM) Vandana Singh and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prahlad Narayan Meena Monday spoke to representatives of Banbhoolpuras Muslim and Hindu communities, and tried to explain the rationale behind the demolition, while on the other, the Haldwani Municipal Corporation (HMC) issued a recovery notice of Rs 2.44 crore to Malik, asking him to deposit the money by 15 February to cover the losses incurred due to violence allegedly planned by him...
In the notice to Malik, which ThePrint has seen, the HMC lists the damage it allegedly incurred on 8 February when its equipment and vehicles were pelted with stones and torched by a mob...
During the meetingMonday, maulanas from various mosques in Haldwani representing the Muslim community urged the administration to relax curfew hours andalso provide passes allowing movement of people, so that they could reassure locals living in fear in the wake of the violence and subsequent heavy police deployment. Mohammed Maqueen Qasmi of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said that the 8 February violence could have been averted had Muslim leaders like him and others been taken in confidence before the demolition...
Reaching a consensus on 3 February on sealing the property and then handing out a memorandum to one of our officers on the ground was a walk away from the consensus built on the structures, DM said to the Muslim leaders.What we were trying to do was to free government land from a person who was illegally occupyingand selling that land on Rs 50 stamp paper,cheating people..
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