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He elaborated that the local administration had pasted a notice at the graveyard and the Muslim community met the SDM, Mussoorie Rahul Anand and shown him the Survey of India map of 1929 which shows the graveyard and the mosque, 1914 Cantonment board documents mentioning about it, 1920 maps a survey of 1962 and land registry in the name of Anjuman islamiaya which bought the land. He said that the SDM said that people are objecting to two \u2018minars\u2019 at the site and asked that those be removed. \u201c The community complied to his directive and removed the \u2018Minars but again notices were served and demolition was done today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mussoorie SDM Rahul Anand stated that the land in question does not belong to the Waqf Board, nor is it owned by any private individual or community. A joint inquiry established that the land belongs to the Mussoorie Municipal Council. He stated that an examination of records from the Revenue Department, Municipal Council, Cantonment Board, and Waqf Board revealed that the structure was built on municipal land and constituted an encroachment.<\/p>\n According to the SDM, the administration had issued notices to the concerned party on three occasions, directing them to remove the structure voluntarily, but the notices were not complied with. Subsequently, the encroachment was removed in the presence of police personnel, in accordance with established procedures. He emphasized that the administration’s action was carried out strictly within the legal framework and that no one is above the law.<\/p>\n The BJP state government has demolished nearly 600 ‘Mazars’ across the state terming them encroachments and even closed several mosques. The Mussoorie demolitions were part of the anti-Muslim campaign being carried out in the state.<\/p>\n Interestingly, the administration has not shown such alacrity in encroachments on public land by other religious groups including Hindu majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mussoorie administration demolishes structure at 200-year-old graveyard where freedom fighter Abbas Tyabbji lay buried, claim it be municipal land S.M.A. KAZMI Dehradun, Aug 1 As part of its\u2019 anti-Muslim campaign by the Uttarakhand BJP government, the Mussoorie administration demolished a structure at the Mussoorie Muslim graveyard in an early morning action and claimed that more …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,56,59],"tags":[4209,3858,1193,3165,3],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-politics","category-uttarakhand","tag-abbas-tyabbji","tag-hate-campaign-against-muslims-in-uttarakhand","tag-islamophobia","tag-targetting-of-muslims-in-uttarakhand","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Muussoorie-graveyard-demolition-3.jpeg\")