Protect Tagore's Kuthibari: HC
The High Court yesterday directed the government to take necessary steps immediately to preserve and protect the historic Kuthibari of Poet Rabindranath Tagore at Shilaidaha in Kushtia.
Delivering a verdict on a writ petition, the court also ordered the authorities concerned to evict all people from the surrounding area of Kuthibari as soon as possible to build a museum there in Rabindranath Tagore's name.
It observed that a Rabindra Museum should be built covering a substantial part of Kushtia.
“Rabindranath Tagore is not only our poet but also a poet for the whole world. He received Nobel Prize for the first time for Bengali people. He is a part of our national heritage. It is our duty to preserve Tagore relics in order to protect our history and heritage,” Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudury Manik observed.
The HC bench comprising Justice Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim rejected the writ petition that was filed by one Md Alauddin of Kushtia challenging the government decision to acquire six acres of land adjacent to Kuthibari area.
Alauddin filed the petition in 2006 saying that the government decided to acquire his land illegally as he had purchased the land from private citizens at different times in cash.
The Court in the same year issued a rule upon the government on why its decision to acquire the land should not be declared illegal.
The government in reply told the court that it offered Alauddin Tk 89 lakh in 2000 for the land to develop the historic site.
But Alauddin rejected the offer and filed the writ petition.
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