MEERUT, Sept. 30 -- The district administration has stepped up action against associates and relatives of Maulana Tauqeer Raza, accused of involvement in the recent Bareilly violence. On Tuesday, joint teams of the Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) and the municipal corporation, supported by heavy police deployment, carried out major demolition and sealing drives across the city.

In Banakhana under Premnagar police limits, officials demolished an illegal electric vehicle charging station owned by Samajwadi Party councillor Oman Raza. Authorities said the structure was unlawfully built over a drain. Another charging point of the councillor, found operating through electricity theft, was also dismantled.

The crackdown extended to Tauqe...