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South Keraniganj

Bashundhara given 7-day ultimatum to stop its activities One injured as truck ploughs thru' landowners' procession

Staff Correspondent
Around three hundred affected landowner^ at Chunkutia under South Keraniganj staged a rally yesterday in protest against alleged land grabbing by Bashundhara Group.
Speakers at the rally at Teghoria Bazar under the banner of Chunkutia Mouja Landowners' Samiti issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Group to stop its activities there.
“We will go for a tougher movement until and unless Bashundhara leaves Chunkutia," said Shyamal Chandra Saha, one of the Samiti leaders.
He alleged that Bashundhara has encroached upon a huge expanse of arable land and fish breeding centres on either side of Chunkutia - Khejurbagh road for a housing project
Meanwhile, as the protesters were crossing the Dhaka-Mawa highway in a procession an empty truck suddenly rammed into it, injuring 30-year-old Rani. She was rushed to Mitford Hospital for treatment.
The protesters managed to capture the driver and helper and handed them over to the police.
Later a case was filed against truck driver Miraj and helper Monwar with the South Keraniganj Police Station.
Haji Abdur Razzak, president of the landowners' samiti, said it was a conspiracy to foil their movement against the land grabber Bashundhara.
The protesters also issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the government to withdraw South Keraniganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge Nilutpai Dey for what they ,termed his connivance with Basundhara and silent role despite the aggrieved locals had filed 250 general diaries.
Samiti General Secretary SA Lokman said that they would lay a siege to the police station unless the OC is withdrawn.
“We called upon the prime minister, public works minister, Rajuk chairman and the home minister to take mea-
sures to stop illegal earth filling here," said Samiti Executive President Golam Mawla.
Ixjkman said the government has been mysteriously silent despite the innocent people's struggle to protect their land for the past five months.
Contacted, Deputy Managing Director of East West Properties of Basundhara Group Md Touhidul Islam said his company had purchased 275 bighas of land in the said locality since 2001.