Fortress has an arched gateway, a courtyard surrounded by corridors, has two rooms in the extreme corner on the left used as jail for the revenue defaulters who failed to zamindari tax, and next to jail rooms a small staircase leads to the terrace with guard post bastions on all four corners.

In 1996-98 rule of Jat Chief Minister of Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, it was turned into the office of Patwari, hence the zail fortress also came to be known as "Bawana Tehsil".

Eventually, this run down building was abandoned, it saw minor restorations in 2004 and 2010 for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi though the earlier 2004 plan to convert it into a monument for the Indian independence freedom fighters did not materialise.

A major restoration eventually commenced in February 2017 using original construction material including the use of lakhori bricks and lime mortar.

[5] The area of the village under farming was 52000 bigha, but now most of this land has been acquired by the Delhi Government for industrial use.

Since 1993, when the Vidhan Sabha was re-constituted, the Bawana constituency has been reserved for Scheduled Castes and has been represented by Sh.

The Rajiv Gandhi Stadium was built in the village, to attract sportsmen and sportswomen from rural Delhi.

The area has produced notable sportsmen such as Satpal Pahalwan, who won the gold medal in Delhi Asian games.

Manjeet Sehrawat, who played hockey for Delhi and bagged silver in National Games 2010.

Manjeet, who belongs to Dariyapur Kalan, has also attended the trial camp for Asia Cup in 2009.