Alleged bid to grab Hindu family land in Rajshahi
Some influential people are allegedly trying to grab the ancestral land of a poor Hindu family in Talaimari area of Rajshahi city on the plea of building a madrassah there.
The family of Abonikanta Saha yesterday rushed to Rajshahi Metropolitan Press Club and alleged that the land grabbers are using political influence to capture their land.
They are threatening them to vacate the land, they told a press conference. They are taking help of a section of policemen, they claimed.
The family showed a number of documents and court orders to prove their right on the land and drew attention of the caretaker government to help them protect it from grabbers.
Pallab Saha, Abonikanta's son said, he filed a general diary with Motihar police station on March 19 seeking help to protect the land.
But the officer-in-charge PS Ferdous Ahmed demanded four kathas (6 decimal) of land and Tk 6 lakh for this, he alleged.
As the family failed to provide the money, police did not help them. Moreover, the OC on September 4 called Pallab at the police station and later drove him away keeping his mobile phone and Tk 4000. However, the mobile was later returned, to Pallab said.
Police also threatened Babul Sarker, their attorney and business partner, with harassment by implicating in cases, Pallab alleged.
Out of his total 51 kathas (about 76.5 decimal) of land, Abonikanta recently rented 3.5 katha to Babul Sarker to start a business there, he said.
But local ward commissioner Tarikul Islam Paltu forced Babul to stop business as he declined to pay him Tk one lakh as toll, pallab alleged at the press conference.
Pallab's cousin Amrita Rani Saha, brother Polash, mother Chobi Rani Saha and uncle Amol Kumar and Babul Sarker were present at the press conference.
Contacted later, OC Ferdous denied the allegation of demanding bribe from the Hindu family. He said police were always busy in maintaining law and order in the city and had hardly any time to look into the matter.
“The allegations are mere propaganda”, he said.
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