Ferozepur, March 16 -- Authorities on Sunday demolished an "illegally constructed" house of a drug peddler in Punjab's Ferozepur district. The accused is facing three cases and still absconding, the officials said.

"The action was initiated in Jhuge Hazara village where the accused had illegally build a house and had also encroached upon one-acre land of the Forest Department," said an official release.

SSP Ferozepur Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said that the accused has been identified as Gurcharan Singh, who built an illegal house in the village falling under the Sadar police station of Ferozepur.

The administration pressed a JCB machine into service, which razed the house. The police officer said that the one-acre land encroached upon by t...