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Allotment flawed, rules violated

Staff Correspondent
The government has found anomalies in allotment of the house on Shaheed Mainul Road in Dhaka Cantonment to former premier Khaleda Zia, sources said.
The Cantonment Board would cancel the allotment after the government officially notifies the defence ministry, said cabinet sources.
Following the assassination of Khaleda's husband president Ziaur Rahman, the then cabinet decided to hand over the ownership of the abandoned house at NED-3 on road 196 in Gulshan to Khaleda, provide Zia's family with Tk 10 lakh, bear educational expenses of Zia's two sons in Bangladesh or abroad, a monthly allowance of Tk 1,500 until the two turns 25, a government car, a driver and fuel.
Besides, the government would also pay for house security, phone bill, medical expenses for Zia's family members in Bangladesh or abroad, a personal assistant, two servants, a cook, a gardener. and a cleaner.
The government also pays gas. electricity and water bills of the Gulshan house.
However, Khaleda and her sons never lived in the Gulshan house. They have been using the cantonment residence where Ziaur Rahman lived.
On lune 10. 1981 the M&Q Directorate, QMG branch, proposed to hand over house 6 on Shaheed Mainul Road in Dhaka Cantonment The house sits on 2.72 acres of land (main building on 2.08 acres, guest house on 34 acres and guard house on .30 acres). Its pnce was fixed at Tk 8.16 lakh (Tk3 lakh per acre)
Administrative approval was given on June 24 to hand over the property to the Military Estate Office (MEO). On July 8. its registration in Khaleda's name was completed.
Sources said defence ministry memo 2/245 on July 8. 2001 said Khaleda had been allotted the Gulshan house following government orders.
But the decision of allotting the Dhaka Cantonment house to Khaleda was made unilaterally by the president in violation of government rule. Besides, the lease conditions were not met. said the memo.
As per rule 10 of the Cantonment Land and Administration Rules, 1937, a lessee must apply for lease mutation that should be done by the Dhaka Cantonment MEO. But Khaleda never applied for it.
The lease mutation was flnne hv the Tejgaon Circle-assistant commissioner (land), violating the rules, which state the land provider should do it.
According to the rules, if the lease mutation is flawed. Khaleda has no legal rights over the land.
Condition 1(4) of the lease documents states that the design and condition of a leased building cannot be changed without permission of the Cantonment MEO. But Khaleda violated the condition.
Both her sons mentioned the Dhaka Cantonment house as their business addresses, which is also a violation of the rules.
The memo also mentions that taxes on the house remain unpaid.