Falta: The South 24 Parganas administration on Wednesday began demolishing the unauthorised portion of former Trinamool MLA Jahangir Khan’s house in Srirampur, Falta.The operation began around 8.30am under BDO Sandip Singh Roy, with fire department personnel and a large police contingent deployed to maintain law and order.The building had been under review after complaints that it exceeded two storeys without approval from the district council. Seven notices were issued to Khan, who was also summoned for hearings. When he failed to appear or remove the structure within seven days, the administration went ahead after securing court approval.Officials broke open the locked main gate. As the building stands in a narrow lane inaccessible to bulldozers, they spent the morning removing furniture and household belongings till about 1pm. Workers then began demolishing the structure with heavy vibrating machinery on the rooftop and hand tools.During the 2026 assembly poll campaign, Khan had invoked the protagonist of the film ‘Pushpa’ to claim he would not bow to pressure. After the election, EC ordered a re-poll in Falta. Khan withdrew from the contest and a BJP candidate won the seat.He was arrested near the India-Nepal border in north Bengal on June 8 on charges including extortion. He and his wife are in judicial custody while the probe into his assets continues.Falta BJP MLA Debangshu Panda called for wider action against illegal constructions, saying several unauthorised structures in Falta stood on filled-up water bodies.He claimed Khan and his wife held registration deeds for about 200 properties, including five to six more houses on occupied vested land, and sought a comprehensive probe into the source of these assets.Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh declined to comment. “If some illegality has been done in demolishing the building, it is for him (Jahangir) and his lawyers to take appropriate action. Jahangir may be in prison, but his lawyers are not,” he said.
