On Friday evening, Moradabad Development Authority (MDA) officials along with several policemen razed a two-storey house owned by a Muslim family in Samdhi Shivpuri village. (Photo: Representative/PTI)

By Amit Sharma

In the latest instance of authorities taking ‘bulldozer action’ in Uttar Pradesh, six properties owned by people named in two First Information Reports (FIRs) in Moradabad and Bareilly districts were demolished this week. While the first case was in connection with a shootout in Bareilly on June 22, the second was related to a bid to kidnap a married woman from her maternal house in Moradabad on June 26.

On Friday evening, Moradabad Development Authority (MDA) officials along with several policemen razed a two-storey house owned by a Muslim family in Samdhi Shivpuri village. “Seven people from this family, including the main accused Muslim Hussain, have been named in an FIR at Munda Pandey police station for a bid to kidnap the married daughter of Sunil Kumar,” Akhilesh Bhadauria, Moradabad Superintendent of Police (SP), said.

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