Meerut, Oct. 5 -- Even as the district administration intensified action against the illegal properties of those accused in the September 26 Bareilly violence, the Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) launched a demolition drive against the wedding hall Raza Palace, owned by a key accused Nafees Khan alias Dr Nafees, in Zakheera.

Heavy police deployment was made at the site before the action began. In a parallel move, the BDA sealed a three-storey house in Faiq Enclave, where Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza had taken refuge during the unrest.

Meanwhile, the municipal corporation carried out an anti-encroachment drive using bulldozers in the Sailani area of the city.

Nafees and his son are already lodged in jai...