Zamindar's Palace
HC order on allegation today
The High Court yesterday fixed today for passing an order on the allegation against a joint district judge and three others of occupying “a former Hindu zamindar's palace” at Nawabganj in Dhaka.
During the hearing of a rule, the court asked the four to appear before it further today in connection with the allegation.
The court issued the suo moto rule on May 10 following a report published in the Daily Sun under the headline “Zamindar palace is judge's palace now!”
The four, who will have to appear before the court today, are: Abul Hossain Khandker, the then joint district judge of Feni, who is now attached to the ministry of law, his brothers Abul Kalam Khandaker, and Abu Ashfaq, also a local BNP leader and chairman of Nawabganj upazila, and their uncle Hashem.
They appeared before the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim yesterday as per the court's May 10 order.
They told the court through their lawyer that they were not involved in occupying the land.
The court said that Abul Hossain was somehow involved in grabbing the property, since its house was named as Joj Bari (Judge's house), and the truth behind has to be unearthed.
Thana Nirbahi Officer (TNO) of Nawabganj Mirazul Islam Ukil, also appeared before the bench. He, however, will not need to come to court today as per court order.
TNO Mirazul told the court that the land of the zamindar palace was vested property which was leased to the Ansar Academy and some people many years ago and some cases involving the ownership of the land have been running around in different courts.
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