North India Statesman
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News India Live, Digital Desk: The building located in Chakia area of Prayagraj, which was once another name for fear, has today been transformed into a heap of oblivion and filth. The luxurious office of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, from where the extortion and land black business of the entire Purvanchal was once conducted, is now lying in an unclaimed condition. Recently, some videos and claims of local people that have gone viral on social media have presented a grim picture of the collapse of this empire – the same office rooms are now being used by the local people as public toilets.
shameful end of the fort of fear
There was a time when this office of Atiq at Chakia was called ‘Secretariat’. Here Parinda also took permission from Atiq before killing. According to local residents, people passing by this building kept their eyes down. But today the scene has completely changed. The building is completely dilapidated, the windows and doors are broken and the grass growing on the walls testifies to the end of Atiq’s influence. Due to lack of proper maintenance and security, this complex has now become a den of stray animals and filth.
The empire of filth and smell spread inside the office
In the viral video on social media, it can be seen that the luxurious office which once had sofas and ACs, is now littered with garbage and human waste all around. People living nearby say that after the administration attached the building, no care was taken of it. The filth has increased so much that even passing through the neighborhood is difficult. This is the same place where after the Umesh Pal murder case, the police raided and recovered a cache of weapons and cash worth crores.
Pakistani connection and discussion of ‘Dhurandhar 2’
Police had found foreign pistols and other deadly weapons from the same office of Atiq Ahmed, after which his Pakistani connection (ISI Connection) came to light. After the recently released film ‘Dhurandhar 2’, the discussions about Atiq’s empire and its end have once again become heated. After watching the film, many retired police officers and politicians have remembered Atiq’s period of terror. People are saying that the condition of the office which was once the center of oppression, today is a living example of the determination to ‘bury it in the ground’.
Administrative negligence or justice of nature?
Now questions are being raised on the condition of this property confiscated under the Gangster Act. Local people believe that if the administration had made good use of this land, like affordable housing has been built for the poor on the nearby land of Atik, then perhaps it would not have become a center of filth. At present, the poor condition of Atiq’s office is a lesson for all those who dream of building their empire on the basis of crime.
