The High Court yesterday issued an injunction notice against the development of Sonargaon Resort City project of Unique Property Development Limited in Narayanganj.
Moreover, the court ordered the company to restore the land to its previous position before earth-filling and the firm’s managing director to submit a report in two months regarding compliance of the order.
The bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Chowdhury and Justice Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order in response to a writ petition filed on Thursday by Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’ Association (BELA).
According to the website of Unique Properties, the project area is near the bank of River Meghna and the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sonargaon.
Ikbal Kabir, lawyer for the petitioner, said 210 bighas out of total 2,350 bigha project area had been filled up. The court also issued a rule asking as to why the project should not be declared illegal.
The housing and public works secretary, land secretary, environment secretary, director general of Department of Environment, Sonargaon Upazila Nirbahi Officer, managing director of Unique properties and five others were asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.
