Land sharks held for selling, damaging graveyard in UP capital

Lucknow, Apr 24 (UNI) Police today arrested two people for selling and damaging a graveyard in the Uttar Pradesh capital.

SSP (Lucknow) Ashutosh Pandey said here Narendra Maurya had allegedly sold two bighas of a graveyard in Aashiana area here to Vimlesh Tiwari for Rs 4 crore.

The police swung into action when Tiwari was levelling the graveyard with bulldozers.

A case had been registered and the duo sent to jail.

The city police had launched a campaign against land mafias on April 6.

So far over 90 land sharks had been identified by a special cell -- set up recently -- to put a check on their activities.

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