BAREILLY: The district administration in Bareilly has reopened a decades-old loan default case and served a recovery notice to cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza, head of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, who was arrested following violence that broke out near Islamia grounds in Bareilly on September 26. Officials said on Thursday that Raza had taken a fertiliser and seed loan of Rs 5,560 in 1990 from Rasoolpur Kutti Sadhan Cooperative Society, which he never repaid. The case had remained dormant since 1997, when a bank audit marked the dues as unpaid. Although the then government announced a loan waiver for farmers in 1996, Raza's account was reportedly not included in the relief. Hari Babu Bharti, general manager of Budaun District Cooperative Bank, said the amount remained unpaid for over three de

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