MT Desk: Authorities in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh have demolished a madrasa serving children in a Muslim-majority village, less than a day after Hindu extremists staged protests demanding its removal, amid growing concerns over the use of bulldozers against Muslim institutions in Modi’s India.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the Islamic seminary in Isuniya village of Unnao district was reduced to rubble as bulldozers and excavators moved in under heavy police deployment.

The action followed demonstrations by members of the Bajrang Dal, an organization affiliated with the Hindutva network, who accused the madrasa of illegally occupying public land and demanded immediate demolition.

Officials claimed the madrasa was built on approximately 0.835 hectares of government land recorded in revenue documents as a playground and sports field.
However, the demolition came shortly after the protests and memorandums submitted by Bajrang Dal activists to local authorities, pressing for swift action and warning against delays.

For residents of the Isuniya village, the operation resulted in the loss of an educational facility that had been serving children in the area for years, with community members watching as the classrooms and structures associated with the madrasa were razed under security cover.
Meanwhile, further continuing its colonial measures aimed at dispossessing Kashmiris, the New Delhi-imposed administration in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has seized immovable properties of two more persons in Srinagar district.
According to Kashmir Media Service, police, acting on the orders of the BJP-led Indian government-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, confiscated a three-storey residential house at Nundresh Colony in Srinagar belonging to Sikander Firdous. In a separate similar operation, a single-storey house owned by Ghulam Hassan Butt was seized in Kral Khud area of the district.

The value of the confiscated properties has been estimated at around INR 80 lakh and INR 70 lakh respectively. Authorities claimed the properties were acquired through illegal means.

Following the abrogation of IIOJK’s special status in August 2019, Indian authorities have seized hundreds of properties, including houses, shops, land, offices and other assets of Kashmiris on various pretexts.
These measures, Kashmir watchers say, are aimed at weakening Kashmiris economically and altering the territory’s demography by allotting these properties to non-local Hindus.