Written by Maulshree SethLucknow | Updated: October 2, 2025 05:24 AM IST 3 min readHouses being demolished in the Kachahari area of Varanasi on Sunday. (Source: ANI)The ongoing demolition of Olympian hockey player Mohammed Shahid’s ancestral house for a road widening project in Varanasi has turned into a full-blown family feud, with his wife, Parveen, getting an FIR registered against her two brothers-in-law for alleged assault.Officials said the feud has erupted in Shahid’s family over the compensation money offered to them by the Varanasi district administration for razing the house in the Kacheri area of the city.While Shahid’s wife and other family members have accepted Rs 32 lakh compensation, Shahid’s two elder brothers — Riyazuddin and Moinuddin – have refused to accept it, calling it inadequate.In her complaint to the police, Parveen alleged that the two brothers-in-law, Riyazuddin and Moinuddin, in their late 60s, tried to strangle her and hurled abuses for accepting the compensation money.“The FIR has been lodged on a complaint by Praveen against her brothers-in-law. While some of her family members have taken the compensation, others have not. This has led to a family dispute. She has alleged that when she went to the house to gather her belongings on Tuesday night, an attempt was made to strangulate her,” said Additional Superintendent of Police (Varanasi Cantonment) Nitin Taneja.Police said Riyazuddin and Moinuddin have been booked under BNS sections for physical assault.Speaking to The Indian Express over the phone, Parveen said: “Acting on the evacuation notice, we had gone to the ancestral house on Tuesday night to collect our remaining belongings. There, my husband’s two elder brothers – Riyazuddin and Moinuddin – misbehaved with me and used foul language. Later, they held me by my neck. They blamed me for settling for lesser compensation.”Story continues below this adPraveen said that following the attack, she was forced to go to the police station to lodge a complaint. She said that when other brothers of Shahid, who have accepted the compensation, visited her and asked her to forgive them, she is now contemplating withdrawing her complaint. “I do not want to further escalate the issue,” Parveen added.According to Parveen, out of 10 brothers and sisters of Mohammed Shahid, one sister has left her claim. Of the remaining nine, seven have accepted the compensation, while Riyazuddin and Moinuddin have not accepted the money, and have demanded more.Officials of the PWD, which carried out the demolition, said that a portion of the four-storey building has been demolished as part of the 9.325 km road-widening exercise from Kachahari to Ashapur. They said that since Shahid’s family did not own the land, they were paid Rs 32 lakh compensation for the houses built on it, and not for the land.Shahid was part of the Indian team that won the hockey gold in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He died in 2016 at the age of 56.Story continues below this adThe Opposition parties had hit out at the BJP government over the demolition of Shahid’s house, calling it shameful.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:lucknow