Overview

• Authorities completed a two-day operation to tear down Raza Palace, the banquet hall linked to arrested aide Nafees Khan, using multiple bulldozers under heavy police deployment.
• BDA officials said the hall lacked a sanctioned plan and had received a 2024 notice, and the agency emphasized the action was carried out under law and not targeted at any individual.
• Reporting from the scene states the administration has sealed properties tied to the accused valued at over ₹170 crore since the September 26 violence.
• Police have arrested more than 70 people, including Nafees and his son earlier, and detained another aide, Farhat, on Sunday as enforcement expanded to additional properties.
• Health authorities sealed Nafees’s optical shop and initiated a case over alleged fake medical qualifications, and the power department issued a ₹1.26 crore notice for purported unauthorised electricity use at a dismantled EV charging site.