Bulandshahr : Police registered an FIR against Chhatari Nagar Panchayat chairperson Salim Qureshi, its executive officer (EO) and an employee for allegedly conspiring to make a building plan application disappear from official records to facilitate the illegal takeover of a family’s ancestral land in Bulandshahr district.
The case was registered at Chhatari police station on court orders following a complaint alleging that civic body officials falsely claimed the applicant had withdrawn the file despite his death a year earlier.
Bulandshahr SSP Dinesh Kumar said police registered the FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 238 (causing disappearance of evidence), 241 (destruction of documents) and 61 (criminal conspiracy) against the accused following the court’s directions. Police launched an investigation into the allegations, including the circumstances in which the building plan file went missing and the conflicting claims concerning its withdrawal.
The complainant alleged that the chairperson, EO and another employee had deliberately removed or destroyed the file as part of a conspiracy linked to electoral rivalry. He further claimed that the disappearance of the documents was intended to facilitate an illegal takeover of the family’s ancestral property.