A few women police personnel razed the house of a rape accused in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district using JCB bulldozers. The man, Kaushal Kishore Choubey, was one of four people accused of raping a minor girl in the state.
Three others were arrested earlier, while Choubey was arrested today, according to an ANI report. “Chaubey had encroached on government land, which was removed using a bulldozer,” Prashita Kurmi, Raneh PS in-charge, told the agency.
This is the latest among the recent bulldozer actions seen in BJP-ruled states.
Last week, authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj bulldozed the house of a close aide of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, amid heavy police presence.
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Similar action was taken in UP’s Banda district, where two more illegal houses were bulldozed, belonging to alleged aides of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
In December, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh government had ordered the demolition using bulldozers of an illegal house of a man named Pankaj Tripathi, who was seen thrashing his 19-year-old girlfriend after she asked him to marry her.
