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Mangaluru: Around midnight on May 13, more than 150 personnel from the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Corporation, along with local police, arrived at the residence of Mateen Patel in the city’s Naregaon area. Patel is the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) corporator. 

The city known as Aurangabad was renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in 2023.

The corporation had sought clarification from Patel two days earlier, on the structure that his father had built in the early 1990s. Even before the deadline had passed, the authorities razed his 2,100-square-foot structure.

The house, ownership of which was shared between Patel and his brother Mohsin, was brought down, along with six shop units built in the structure. Patel, according to his family, was allegedly “punished” for giving shelter to Nida Khan, a young tele-caller who came in the eye of the storm for her alleged role in Nashik’s much-publicised “TCS case”. Twenty-six-year-old Khan, who is in her first trimester of pregnancy, was arrested from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on May 8.

On Khan’s arrest, Patel too was dragged into the........

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