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Govt notice to Khaleda upheld

HC asks it to give the former PM a month to vacate cantonment house; her chief counsel stunned by verdict

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday declared valid the government notice asking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to vacate her Shaheed Mainul Road residence in Dhaka Cantonment.
The court asked the government to give her one month's time to leave the house.
It came up with this verdict after rejecting a writ petition filed by Khaleda Zia challenging the government notice.
An HC bench comprised of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Sheikh Hassan Arif also vacated its stay order on the notice.
Details of the verdict could not be known immediately.
The government on April 8 last year cancelled allotment of the house on grounds of " anomalies in the allotment."
Then it served a notice on April 20 asking the former prime minister to leave the house
within 15 days. A second notice was served on May 7 and the final one on May 24, asking her to leave the house by June 30.
Khaleda's principal counsel TH Khan said yesterday they are stunned by the HC judgement. “We will decide on filing an appeal with the Supreme Court against the judgement after consulting our leader,” he said.
Another counsel for Khaleda, requesting anonymity, however told this correspondent that they must file an appeal against the verdict.
in 1981, the then president Justice Abdus Sattar allotted the house on 165 kathas of land to Khaleda on a lease deed for one taka allegedly in violation of constitutional provisions and laws.
Talking to journalists at his office following the HC verdict, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said, "Justice Sattar had given the property to Khaleda Zia to show his loyalty to her."
Before giving the cantonment house, Sattar government had also allocated 1.5 bighas of land at Gulshan in the capital, and given Tk 10 lakh and other facilities to Khaleda and her two sons.
The cantonment residence, earmarked for the deputy chief of the army staff, was allotted to Khaleda on the recommendation of the then quarter master general Amzad Ahmed Chowdhury.
After the BDR carnage in February last year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged Khaleda Zia to leave the cantonment house so that the government can construct multi-storeyed buildings there for the family members of the carnage victims.
The alleged irregularities in allotment of the house include Khaleda's carrying out political activities from there, which go against terms and conditions of the allotment. Besides, no one can be allotted two government houses in the capital, and a civilian cannot get a house on lease within a cantonment.
The government also said unauthorised changes and extension of the structure were made violating the code of conduct fora military area.
Originally, the house was official residence of the deputy chief of army staff, then that of the chief of army staff and finally of the president when Ziaur Rahman held the posts.