Lucknow, June 24 (TIWN) Reviving its campaign against the land mafia, the Yogi Adityanath government got a portion of a private medical college and associated hospital on the IIM Road here bulldozed by the district administration on Tuesday despite incessant rains.

The medical facility is owned by former Samajwadi Party Minister of State, Mohd Iqbal, and he had encroached upon land owned by the state irrigation department.

The building was razed on the orders of the revenue court. According to the court, the building was encroaching government land meant for construction of a road.

The hospital had been designated as a level-1 COVID-19 hospital by the administration, but no patient has been admitted here so far.