After gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead while they were being taken for medical tests, tales of how the dreaded gangster illegally grabbed valuable land and kept people on their toes are coming to the fore.
India Today has accessed CCTV footage dating back to 2014 which shows Atiq Ahmed and his armed henchmen arriving at a man's residence. As per sources, Rajeev Tandon had ancestral land in Jhulelal Nagar of Lukarganj in Prayagraj. Tandon had some dispute with his father regarding the division of the property.
Atiq Ahmed came to know about the dispute between the father and son over valuable property. In 2014, Atiq Ahmed staked claim on this land and sent his henchmen to give the message to Tandon that his brother had bought the property.
When Rajiv Tandon refused to vacate the property, on October 30, 2014, Atiq Ahmed himself came to occupy the land with his cohort of armed goons in a car, which had Atiq Ahmed written on the back side.
When Atiq Ahmed reached home, Rajeev Tandon was not there and his wife refused to open the door. Atiq Ahmed threatened her and went away. According to Rajeev Tandon, he filed a complaint against Atiq Ahmed at the police station during the rule of the Samajwadi Party. Instead of filing an FIR, the police, on seeing Atiq Ahmed's name, chased Tandon away.
However, Tandon found a new way to save his property from going into wrong hands. Along with the school running in his ancestral house, Rajeev Tandon put up a board of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and started organizing programmes of the Hindu outfit.
When the government changed in 2017, Rajeev Tandon also got an FIR lodged in Khuldabad police station in this matter. "I got an FIR lodged against my father Maheshwar Dayal, brother Ashish Tandon as well as Ajay Kumar Hela, who was negotiating the property on behalf of Atiq Ahmed, and Pappu Shukla, son of Atiq Ahmed's accountant Sitaram Shukla, said Tandon.
