A retired school teacher in Kashiani of Gopalganj has sought justice after a local influential grabbed a piece of his land.
Local Union Parishad chairman and the police have intervened to settle the matter, and gave their judgements in favour of Nirod Roy, a retired primary school teacher. But the land grabber remains indifferent.
Babul Akhtar, inspector of Ramdia police outpost in Kashiani, said that the teacher had complained to the police several times regarding the sand-filling and forced occupation of the land.
“We called both parties, and I measured the land to solve the problem. The issue was explained to all by looking at the documents of both parties. Since the grabber is causing trouble repeatedly, we've requested the teacher to approach the court,” Inspector Babul said.
The accused, Harun Molla, is the son of a condemned Razakar (collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971) late Kheyal Uddin Molla.
Local people are outraged after learning about the ordeals of the retired teacher, who filed a case after Harun Molla attempted to occupy his land.
According to the case statement, Harun had bought a piece of land from Nirod 25 years ago at Ramdia village under Bathuria Union Parishad. Recently, he had tried to occupy the porch of Nirod's house adjacent to the land.
After the issue was settled in arbitration, where Harun had admitted his fault, he allegedly sand-filled Nirod's property at midnight on December 4. Harun and his aides at the time also issued life threats to Nirod and his family members.
“Since then, we've been in constant terror,” said Nirod's wife Eti Rani.
Contacted, Harun told Dhaka Tribune that there had been some errors in land measurement, and he only claimed what was his for the past 25 years.
“The surveyor had made a mistake while measuring the land,” he claimed.
Imrul Hasan Mia, the local UP chairman, said he had tried to resolve the matter through discussions among the conflicting parties and asked Harun to refrain from sand-filling the land.