10 from Thakurganj & 6 from Qaiserbagh have been served recovery notices by UP Govt of over Rs 69 lakh till now for damage to public and private property.
Lucknow| The UP govt has put up hoardings in prominent junctions in state capital Lucknow, with names, addresses and photos of some of those accused of violence during protests against the citizenship law in Lucknow in December last year.
The hoardings include pictures of Shia cleric Maulana Saif Abbas, retired IPS SR Darapuri and Congress leader Sadaf Jafar, all of whom were named as accused in the violence that swept the state capital on December 19 last year.
All of these people are out on bail and have said they will contest in court any move by the government to attach their property.
They have been asked to pay for the damage to public and private property within a stipulated time or have their properties seized by the district administration which comes under UP govt. The total damage listed in the hoardings amount to ₹1.55 crore.
It is not clear why public hoardings with names and addresses have been put up; individual property attachment notices to many of the accused have already been served by the government.
As many as 57 persons have been identified in separate hoardings that have come up in the Hazratganj, Thakurganj, Hasanganj and Qaiserbagh police station areas.
One of them, with 28 names, put up at the prominent Hazratganj intersection, next to the statue of B.R. Ambedkar, asks them to pay up over ₹64 lakh.
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The Lucknow administration has assessed the damage to be worth Rs 1.55 crore.
Large-scale violence was reported from UP over the Citizenship Amendment Act, which detractors have termed as “divisive” and “anti-Muslim”.
Deepak Kabir told NDTV, “You know our addresses, we have the notice. Then why this? Is this to create fear? And if it is, then how can any government be called a good government.”
According to NDTV’s source in the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s office said the hoardings in Lucknow were put up on the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. After the December violence, Yogi Adityanath had courted controversy with his remarks about ‘badla’ or revenge. “We will be very strict. I am monitoring this myself. We will attach the property of all those involved in the violence and many such faces are identified in videography and CCTVs. We will attach their property and take revenge against them,” the Chief Minister had said.
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