Shopping complex of jailed MLA Vijay Mishra demolished

PRAYAGRAJ, March 6 (HS): Illegal shopping complex owned by Gyanpur, Badohi MLA Vijay Mishra in Allahpur area under George Town police station of Prayagraj was completely demolished on Friday by a joint team of Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) and district administration officials. The influential Independent MLA is currently languishing in jail and has 73 cases registered against him. He has been booked under the Goonda Act and the stringent National Security Act in the past.

Tainted MLA Vijay Mishra’s illegal residence was also razed by Yogi government last year. Continuing the crackdown against illegal properties owned by the jailed Badohi MLA, a joint team of Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA), district administration and police had razed remaining three-storey shopping complex spread in an area of 500 sq ft worth several crores in Allahpur area under George Town police station of Prayagraj. It was alleged that the MLA had illegally occupied Nazul land and action to demolish the illegal structures were taken on a complaint.

Despite resistence from the wife of jailed MLA, Ram Lali Mishra, MLC from UP along with her daughter Seema Mishra, the demolition drive was carried out under the supervision of officer on special duty (enforcement) Alok Pandey. The team backed by heavy police force led by CO and an SDM-rank official, continued the demolition drive for hours and then sealed the entire area.

The tainted MLA Vijay Mishra of Bhadohi and his son were arrested in August 2020. The four-time MLA, who was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on a Nishad Party ticket in 2017 but later expelled from the party, was arrested for allegedly grabbing a relative’s house and extorting money from him. They were booked under sections 323 (voluntary causing hurt), 347 (wrongful confinement), 387 (putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 449 (house-trespass) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code on August 4. The father son duo were also charged with raping a Varanasi-based singer.

Earlier in a surprising move, the family of arrested Uttar Pradesh MLA Vijay Mishra had got top two floors of their own ‘illegally constructed’ shopping complex in Prayagraj demolished. This move came after the Yogi Adityanath government has been on the offensive to destroy the illegal empire of the tainted MLA Vijay Mishra. PDA and administrative officials backed by heavy police force raised the remaining three floors of the five storey shopping complex on Friday. Fearing similar fate like that of their three-storey residential building spread in an area of 500 sq ft worth several crores in Allahpur area, which was demolished by the Yogi government in November 2020, Mishra’s family got the top two floors of their shopping complex demolished in December 2020.