The police arrested Samajwadi Party worker Shahid Azmi on
Thursday afternoon for rioting. Abhay Solutkar, site manager
of the Deewan Group of builders and developers has registered
a case against Azmi and a dozen others at the Bandra Kurla
Complex police station on December 11. The accused include
Rajya Sabha MP Abu Asim Azmi and his brother, Kasim Azmi.
The police version is that Samajwadi Party workers tried
putting up a board at a construction site being developed
by Deewan Group. It read: 'Developers — Abu Azmi commercial
centre'. "When workers employed by the Deewan Group tried
to stop the Samajwadi men, Shahid and others attacked them.
The construction site at Mohammedi Estate, Motilal Nagar,
Santacruz (East} belongs to the MMRDA.
Abu Azmi, however, denied that his party workers had tried
to grab the land. He claims that"The place belongs to
Arora Builders, and we were given authorization by them to
develop the land."
