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72 EWS flats up for registration on late mafia Mukhtar Ansari's land in Lucknow

Lucknow, July 7 (UNI) The Lucknow Development Authority( LDA) will open the registration of 72 EWS flats constructed under the PM housing scheme on the land which earlier was the residence of late mafia don Mukhtar Ansari.
The land in the prime location of Lucknow in Dalibagh area was of Mukhtar Ansari and his family, but it was demolished and the area was giving to the LDA for building EWS( Economically Weaker Section) flats for the poor. The registration for 72 flats will open next month.
LDA vice-chairman Prathamesh Kumar said here on Tuesday that the mafia had illegally occupied the land in Dalibagh which was demolished in 2020. The land on which this building was built was in the names of Mukhtar's sons.
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