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A bitter dispute has erupted within the family of late Olympian hockey player Mohammed Shahid after his ancestral house in Varanasi was demolished for a road widening project.
The conflict, centred around the compensation offered by authorities, has now spilled into the open with Shahid’s wife, Parveen, lodging an FIR against her two brothers-in-law for alleged assault.
Officials said the feud broke out after the Varanasi district administration provided Rs 32 lakh compensation for razing the house in the Kacheri area. While Parveen and several other family members accepted the money, Shahid’s elder brothers, Riyazuddin and Moinuddin, rejected it, terming the amount inadequate.
In her complaint, Parveen alleged that the two brothers-in-law, both in their late 60s, tried to strangle her and hurled abuses when she went to the house to collect her belongings.
“The FIR has been lodged on a complaint by Praveen against her brothers-in-law. While some of her family members have taken the compensation, others have not. This has led to a family dispute. She has alleged that when she went to the house to gather her belongings on Tuesday night, an attempt was made to strangulate her,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Varanasi Cantonment) Nitin Taneja told The Indian Express.
Police confirmed that Riyazuddin and Moinuddin have been booked under BNS sections for physical assault.
Speaking to newspaper over the phone, Parveen said: “Acting on the evacuation notice, we had gone to the ancestral house on Tuesday night to collect our remaining belongings. There, my husband’s two elder brothers – Riyazuddin and Moinuddin – misbehaved with me and used foul language. Later, they held me by my neck. They blamed me for settling for lesser compensation.”
She added that after the incident, she went to the police station to file a complaint. However, she is now considering withdrawing it after other brothers, who accepted the compensation, requested her to forgive them.
“I do not want to further escalate the issue,” Parveen said.
According to her, out of 10 siblings of Mohammed Shahid, one sister has given up her claim. Of the remaining nine, seven have accepted the compensation, while only Riyazuddin and Moinuddin continue to refuse the payment, pressing for a higher amount.
PWD officials said a portion of the four-storey building had been demolished as part of the 9.325 km road-widening project from Kachahari to Ashapur. They clarified that since Shahid’s family did not own the land, they were compensated only for the structure and not the land itself.
Mohammed Shahid, one of India’s most celebrated hockey players, was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 56. The demolition of his house has drawn sharp criticism from Opposition parties, which called the action by the BJP government “shameful.”
The conflict, centred around the compensation offered by authorities, has now spilled into the open with Shahid’s wife, Parveen, lodging an FIR against her two brothers-in-law for alleged assault.
Officials said the feud broke out after the Varanasi district administration provided Rs 32 lakh compensation for razing the house in the Kacheri area. While Parveen and several other family members accepted the money, Shahid’s elder brothers, Riyazuddin and Moinuddin, rejected it, terming the amount inadequate.
In her complaint, Parveen alleged that the two brothers-in-law, both in their late 60s, tried to strangle her and hurled abuses when she went to the house to collect her belongings.
“The FIR has been lodged on a complaint by Praveen against her brothers-in-law. While some of her family members have taken the compensation, others have not. This has led to a family dispute. She has alleged that when she went to the house to gather her belongings on Tuesday night, an attempt was made to strangulate her,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Varanasi Cantonment) Nitin Taneja told The Indian Express.
Police confirmed that Riyazuddin and Moinuddin have been booked under BNS sections for physical assault.
Speaking to newspaper over the phone, Parveen said: “Acting on the evacuation notice, we had gone to the ancestral house on Tuesday night to collect our remaining belongings. There, my husband’s two elder brothers – Riyazuddin and Moinuddin – misbehaved with me and used foul language. Later, they held me by my neck. They blamed me for settling for lesser compensation.”
She added that after the incident, she went to the police station to file a complaint. However, she is now considering withdrawing it after other brothers, who accepted the compensation, requested her to forgive them.
“I do not want to further escalate the issue,” Parveen said.
According to her, out of 10 siblings of Mohammed Shahid, one sister has given up her claim. Of the remaining nine, seven have accepted the compensation, while only Riyazuddin and Moinuddin continue to refuse the payment, pressing for a higher amount.
PWD officials said a portion of the four-storey building had been demolished as part of the 9.325 km road-widening project from Kachahari to Ashapur. They clarified that since Shahid’s family did not own the land, they were compensated only for the structure and not the land itself.
Mohammed Shahid, one of India’s most celebrated hockey players, was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 56. The demolition of his house has drawn sharp criticism from Opposition parties, which called the action by the BJP government “shameful.”
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