A case of grabbing land to erect college and irregularities has been registered against senior Congress leader and chairman of the UPCC minority cell, Siraj Mehndi, in Jaunpur. The matter was now under investigation for further necessary action.
Reports said that one Syed Shazade Alam Zaidi, a resident of Purani Bazar, claimed that a college Rs Rs Akhtar Hassan Rizvi Shia Degree College’ was erected illegally on the land belonging to the Raza DM Inter College. He said that land was also registered in the thesil record in the name of Raza DM Inter College. He said that the accused had made criminal conspiracy in March last year when they submitted an application claiming that the tehsil record showed the land was registered in Akhtar Hassan Rizvi Shia College’s name.
Zaidi claimed that when SDM Sadar conducted probe, he found that the above college is built after grabbing land and that the college was also recognised on basis of forged documents. He claimed that after the above findings, he tried to get a case registered in the matter. However when the cops refused, he moved to local court to get a case registered in the said matter. Finally the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Abhinay Mishra, ordered the local police to get a case registered and probe the matter and subsequently to submit report for further action. Besides Siraj Mehndi, who is manager of the College, the case was also registered against Dr Akhtar Hassan Rizvi, acting principal Sadiq Rizvi, and five others.