Prayagraj: A hut situated near the colony built by the henchmen of mafia Atiq Ahmed in Kareli area of ​​Prayagraj suddenly caught fire on Thursday. The fire started spreading quickly. A fire broke out in a scrap heap in Murga Darbar area of ​​Kareli in the city on Thursday. When the flames rose, there was panic among the people. After getting the news, the fire personnel reached the spot and controlled the fire after a lot of effort. There was no loss of life. People live in huts near the scrap yard: Chhotu’s scrap yard is located in the Murga Darbar area of ​​Kareli. Here, scrap pickers have built scores of huts on vacant land , where they live. The scrap yard caught fire on T. Before anyone could understand anything, the fire had taken a monstrous form. The huts were also engulfed.

Engineer Mohammad Farooq Naseer, a retired government employee and social workers is in deep shock over the raging inferno gutting illegal slums adjacent to his house in Kareli Karamat chowki area. He suffered a whopping loss after a fire emanating from illegal slums caused cracks in his walls and gutted his personal belongings, causing him considerable loss. He has several times raised the issue of illegal shanties flourishing adjacent to his house, but all his pleas have fallen on deaf ears, and authorities turning a blind eye towards the settlement of illegal Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, and Biharis in the area.   

Engineer Mohammad Farooq Naseer gave several letters to the district administration, but till now no action has been taken. “All police officers are requested that, under no circumstances, the investigation and action against those who provide shelter to Bangladeshis living in slums in the Kareli police station area be stopped. This is a threat to the society and the country. Due to the storage of junk, we, the people living in the Kareli Karamat chowki area, are on the verge of death. Every crime takes place in these huts. The surprising thing is that why are these slums flourishing only in Muslim-dominated areas? There must be someone who is giving shelter to these Bangladeshi infiltrators because due to this junk, terrible fires have broken out many times, the walls of the nearby houses have burst, and there is also financial loss to the house owners. Goods worth thousands of rupees were destroyed and houses were burnt, but surprisingly, no action has been taken against any Bangladeshi infiltrator or slum dweller,” he lamented during a free-wheeling chat with journalists post-fire incident.

Behind Kareli Murga Darbar in Karamat ki Chowki police chowki area, fire broke out in the junk kept by these people in the slum of Bangladeshi, Rohangiyas and Biharis. The fire was so terrible that cracks appeared in the adjacent houses. The fire also showed its fury in the houses of the neighbors. Goods worth Rs. 15-16 thousand from adjacent house owners also got burnt in the fire. Fire has broken out several times in the slums of these people due to a heater short circuit. We people are waiting for our death. The district administration is urged to take strict action,” he retorted while replying to queries of scribes prior to signing off.