STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Authorities have demolished an illegally constructed building of a religious seminary constructed on government land in Pulwama district, a year after two terrorists were killed there in a gunfight with security forces, officials said Tuesday.
The building at Chewa Kalan village in Pulwama district was demolished Monday night by revenue authorities based on recommendations of the National Investigating Agency, the officials said.
According to the officials, the seminary was defunct after the gunfight last year.
Officials recalled that Police and Army had conducted an operation during intervening night of 11/12th March in 2022 in a Darul Uloom located at Chewa Kalan Pulwama in which one local terrorist Aquib Mushtaq resident of Kareemabad and one foreign terrorist got killed. In this connection, investigation of case FIR No 50/2022 was later on taken over by NIA and during investigation, NIA arrested the administrators of said Dar-Ul-uloom namely Naseer Molvi resident of ChewaKalan and his associate namely Imtiyaz who are still under custody. The Dar-Ul-uloom comprising three single storied rooms were built on Govt land and were redundant since occurrence of encounter i.e. March 11/12, 2022. Accordingly, on the recommendations of NIA these illegal structures on Govt land got demolished tonight by revenue authorities under Police protection, the officials added.