In his arrest and the accusation of supporting violent protests over the anti-Prophet remarks in Kanpur on June 3, a ghost from the past has come to haunt Mukhtar Baba, his family, and his biryani business.
Over the last few years, the 65-year-old got clean chits from the local administration following complaints that he usurped enemy property and encroached upon a temple that stood upon it in Kanpur’s Beconganj. But in April, what he called his land was again termed enemy property in a union home ministry notice, and Baba moved the Allahabad High Court.
