Uddham Singh Nagar, May 4 -- A man was allegedly barred from building his house in Rudrapur city of Uttarakhand's Uddham Singh Nagar by a ward councillor who claimed Muslims were not allowed to construct houses in the colony.

Asim Ansari purchased a registered plot of approximately 150 yards in Ward no 31, Ishwari Alliance Colony, in 2020. After six years, he initiated the construction.

"We bought it by saving every single penny; yet today, as we set out to construct upon it, Sachin Munjal and some of his associates are preventing us from carrying out work on our own land," Ansari told reporters outside the police station after filing the complaint.

According to the complaint, the local councillor Sachin Munjal and his associate Vijay ...