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District Magistrate Vandana Singh said the mosque and the madrassa were demolished because they were illegally built on government land and were not registered as religious structures.

On Thursday, thousands of protesters tried to block government officials and police who arrived to demolish the seminary and mosque following a court order that the structures were being built on government land without local authorization, Anshuman said.

He added that the DDA frequently acted against encroachments on government land, including by temples, and that it had demolished five temples in a different neighbourhood on the same day as the mosque.

He helped transform 1,500 acres of government land into a solar farm and worked with the department to ensure safe and effective cleanup at the site that produced plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program during the Cold War.

Oil companies are beefing up for more production even as the Biden administration keeps blocking off government land that could produce energy.