Kanpur, 25 June: Mukhtar Baba, the owner of the famous Baba Biryani chain of restaurants in Kanpur, as well as his son, daughter, mother, and a Pakistani citizen Abid Rehman, has been booked in three separate First Information Reports (FIRs).
The complaints were filed with the Public Grievance Cell in several areas for illegal occupation, including enemy property.
Around 21 other people have been charged with grabbing the Ramjanki temple on New Berry Road and a Shiva temple in Premnagar. “We will record Baba’s statement, who is in jail,” cops stated.
Mukhtar Baba, owner of the Baba Biryani, the chain of Biryani outlets was arrested and sent to jail on late Wednesday after his name surfaced in connection with the June 3 violence.
In the first FIR, which was filed by Baba’s neighbor Adibul Qadar, mother Hazra Begum, brothers Mumtaz and Mushtaq, and son Waqar were listed as accused, along with one Maulabaksh and Shivcharan Gupta.
According to Qadar, secretary of Enemy Property Protection Sangharsh Samiti, there were several people staying on rent at Ramjanki temple complex.
?The majority of Hindu households had departed during the 1931 riots. The priests, on the other hand, continued with their puja rituals,? he asserted.
“However, Maulabaksh falsely registered the temple grounds in his name. The property was then registered in the name of Pakistani citizen Abid Rehman using a forged ‘Hibanama’ (gift deed). The property was ‘bainama’ (registered) in the name of Hazra Begum, Baba’s mother. Later, Baba and his brothers had it named after themselves. Baba built a restaurant there after the occupants were there “Qadar said.
Ehsanulhaq Ansari, a Kanghi Mohal resident, who was a tenant at Ramjanki temple, has also lodged a report against Baba and others, stating that he was a tenant but was forced to abandon his business when Baba registered the property in his name via fraud.
In Premnagar, Uday Shankar Nigam has filed an FIR against Baba, Umar, and Baba’s daughter Naaz Ayesha, saying that a house in Premnagar was fraudulently registered in Ayesha’s name. “The temple compound features an old Shiva temple and a well designed for parikrama,” Nigam explained.
Mukhtar Baba is accused of opening a Biryani shop by capturing Enemy property and a part of the ancient Ram Janki temple. Notices were served to him and others by the district administration and the Custodian Office of the Center in the Enemy Property case.
