The Chandola Lake demolition was not just a civic clearance but a preventive counter-terror move. Here's The full story The end will shock you!!! The biggest anti national clean up operation in India 15000+ illegal houses Chandola Lake area : 12L sq.m Encroachment: 4L sq.m 1/17
Encroachment is between Mota Chandola to the west and two Nana Chandola talavs to the east. Demolition drive Phase 1: April 29 - May 1 Cleared 1.2L sq.m, demolished 4000+ houses Phase 2: May 20 - 23 May To clear 2.5L sq.m to demolish 10000+ houses ..2/17
Who is behind this? Lalla Bihari alias Mahamud Pathan. Mosus Operandi- He first made a parking lot in area between the three parts of the lake between trees. Then started to house illegal Bangladeshis. He started filling parts of Lake with debris and make kaccha houses. ..3/17
He would then convert those to Pukka house and build kuccha ones infront of it. He even built his lavish 18,000 sqft home with farm house the middle of this. There were AC rooms in Lallu Bihari’s farm house, garden, fountains. 50 cars and 250 rickshaws were with him. ..4/17
when more and more people started to come, he started to block the water inlets to the lake so that less water is filled and more space is created inside lake for them. At one time there was heavy flooding around the lake but no water in the lake. ...5/17
He lent money at high interest rates to auto rickshaw owners and snatch away their auto for non payment. He used to collect parking charges for autos, handcarts, two wheelers as well as rented godowns for liquor, drugs, prostitution, etc.. with monthly income of 20L+ ..6/17
Chandola Lake had become a center for many illegal activities - more than 15000 Illegal Bangladeshis - sex trade - drug trafficking - fake document creation - providing shelter to extremist elements. four Bangladeshi nationals linked to an Al-Qaeda module were arrested. ..7/17
Police recovered 590 fake passports. All this built up over 22 years on pretext of giving employment in his broom manufacturing company. His illegal activities came to light after Torrent power files multiple cases of electricity theft against residents of that area. ..8/17
There was a demolition drive in 2009 following Supreme court order but the area was not much. Lalla then went overdrive to develop the area as mini bangladesh. His similar plan was to capture nearby areas. He has started building A-one Nagar in Juhapura. ...9/17
Lalla Bihari provided not only accommodation to Bangladeshis but also provided fake Indian documents, small jobs, storage houses, parking hubs, drilled borewells for water, sewage, electricity. The area is called Bangladeshivaas. ..10/17
Lalla Bihari has 5 houses in different cities and 4 wives. He fled before the first demolition on 29 April but his son Fateh was arrested. Lalla was arrested from Rajasthan when attending a marriage function on 2 May. He was to flee to UP. ...11/17
But then despite the illegal settlement being in place for over 22 years, why CM, MOS Home, and Police Commissioner got directly involved and triggered the unprecedented operation? In 2023, Gujarat ATS arrested four Bangladeshi linked to Al-Qaeda from Chandola area. ..12/17
Their mission: to radicalize youth in Gujarat and funnel funds to international terror networks. The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and ABT (Ansarullah Bangla Team), both operating from Bangladesh, were infiltrating Bangladeshis near Chandola to establish sleeper cells. ..13/17
Shortly after, Mohammad Yunus formed the new government, and on August 26, ABT chief Jasimuddin Rahmani, Al-Qaeda affiliate, was released on parole. ABT actively contacted Bangladeshis living in Chandola to recruit for sleeper cells and spread radical ideology. ..14/17
Ikramul Haq was also released same time. India’s most wanted, is a key AQIS recruiter who trains sleeper cells and is a skilled bomb maker, he is allegedly preparing for suicide attacks In India. large number of Bangladeshis in Chandola was one of ideal choice. ..15/17
This triggered alarm across Indian agencies, elevating Chandola to 'high sensitivity' zone for counter terror ops. Chandola demolition was not just a civic clearance but a preventive counter-terror move born out of growing geopolitical instability and hard intelligence ..16/17
IB is investigating the case after reports lot many Bangladeshis have also settled in Vadodara, Rajkot and Surat. 1000+ arrested in Ahmedabad, 100+ in Surat, 500+ suspected in Vadodara. All this started after #PahalgamAttack as counter terror operations. #JaiHind ....17/17
Just to add that their plan was that after pahalgam, Bharat will retaliate and Pak will escalate war. Then this sleeper cells will be activated to create a civil war like situation. Bharat Immediately started action on 0.5 front after pahalgam attack. Bharat aggressively