India, Dec. 26 -- A hotel, built on half-acre captured government land and being operated allegedly by a notorious criminal at Khera Khurrampur in Gurugram's Farrukhnagar, was demolished on Thursday, said police officials.

Existing at a prime location along the road, it was being run for the last several months, and was owned by Rajat Kumar, a man with a criminal past and hailing from Khera Khurrampur, they added.

Investigators said that Kumar has at least 10 criminal cases registered against him at Farrukhnagar, Pataudi, Sector-5 and Sector-10 police stations in the city, and at the City Rewari police station in Rewari district.

Most of the cases are of murder, assault, extortion, illegal firearms possession and smuggling and operatin...