Hubli, February 25: A commercial complex built near the Idgah maidan here was today demolished in accordance with the Supreme Court order amid tight police security.
President of the Anjuman-e-Islam Savanur told reporters that the demolition was carried out and the vacant land handed over to the Hubli-Dharwad City Corporation authorities.
Rejecting the claims of the Muslim organisation Anjuman-e -Islam, the Supreme Court had two months back ruled that the property belonged to the city corporation, thus ending a four-decade-old tangle over its ownership.
The Idgah Maidan had remained a source of tension in Hubli since 1992 with BJP and other Sangh Parivar groups insisting that the tricolour be unfurled there on Independence Day and Republic Day.
In 1994, six persons had died in a police firing when a crowd tried to enter the ground to hoist the tricolour.
-PTI