<p>Shahana Bi had no idea about the difficulties she was going to face in getting possession of the house she had bought in Katghar area in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad town.<br /><br />The house papers were in order and the registration deed too had been properly executed in her favour. <br /><br />The problem lay in something else.. <br /><br />Shahana was a Muslim and the house she had bought in a predominantly Hindu locality.<br />When Shahana and her family reached their house on Wednesday night, they were not allowed by her neighbours, all Hindus, to enter it. <br /><br />‘No Muslims allowed’</p>.<p>The residents of the locality said that they would not allow a Muslim family to live in their neighbourhood.<br /><br />Vidya Sharan Sharma, a local corporator and Shahana’s immediate neighbour, even locked the house and allegedly asked the Muslim family to “forget” about living there. <br />“We will not allow a Muslim in our midst,” Sharma said.<br /><br />“We had bought the house six months back. We have been trying to take possession of the house but we were refused entry merely because we are Muslims,” Shahana said.<br />Prabha Devi, the former owner of the house, said that she was under pressure from neighbours not to sell the house to Muslims. <br /><br />“I tried to sell the house to Hindus but they did not offer the right price, so ultimately I sold it to a Muslim,” Prabha Devi said.<br /><br />Police, which reached the spot on getting the information, sealed the house as tension flared up in the locality. <br /><br />“We have registered a case and are investigating the matter,” said a police officer in Moradabad. </p>
<p>Shahana Bi had no idea about the difficulties she was going to face in getting possession of the house she had bought in Katghar area in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad town.<br /><br />The house papers were in order and the registration deed too had been properly executed in her favour. <br /><br />The problem lay in something else.. <br /><br />Shahana was a Muslim and the house she had bought in a predominantly Hindu locality.<br />When Shahana and her family reached their house on Wednesday night, they were not allowed by her neighbours, all Hindus, to enter it. <br /><br />‘No Muslims allowed’</p>.<p>The residents of the locality said that they would not allow a Muslim family to live in their neighbourhood.<br /><br />Vidya Sharan Sharma, a local corporator and Shahana’s immediate neighbour, even locked the house and allegedly asked the Muslim family to “forget” about living there. <br />“We will not allow a Muslim in our midst,” Sharma said.<br /><br />“We had bought the house six months back. We have been trying to take possession of the house but we were refused entry merely because we are Muslims,” Shahana said.<br />Prabha Devi, the former owner of the house, said that she was under pressure from neighbours not to sell the house to Muslims. <br /><br />“I tried to sell the house to Hindus but they did not offer the right price, so ultimately I sold it to a Muslim,” Prabha Devi said.<br /><br />Police, which reached the spot on getting the information, sealed the house as tension flared up in the locality. <br /><br />“We have registered a case and are investigating the matter,” said a police officer in Moradabad. </p>