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Shaheed Minar

20 illegal structures demolished

Staff Correspondent
Twenty illegal structures on land of the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka University area were knocked down yesterday in line with a recent High Court order.
A team of the Dhaka district administration in collaboration with the Public Works Department and Dhaka Metropolitan Police began a drive around 10:00am.
They demolished structures that included two bathrooms, a kitchen-cum-storeroom, the main entrance of a mazar [enshrined tomb], two rooms for the imam of a mosque and the caretaker of the mazar, washrooms and a water tank.
The twenty-katha land was then handed over to the DU estate manager.
"We requested the university authorities to build a wall separating the mazar from the Shaheed Minar compound so that the sanctity of the Shaheed Minar was not violated," said Mohammad Al Amin, executive magistrate of Dhaka district administration and leader of the drive.
A vested group was exploiting the place for its own interest, he added.
In response to a writ petition filed by Prof Muntasir
Mamun, a teacher of Dhaka University, the High Court on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to remove all illegal structures, excluding the tomb, from the land in 48 hours.
The petition said the vested quarter which had occupied the land for a mazar was planning to build a high-rise. Some employees of Dhaka Medical College were also abusing the place.
Magistrate Al Amin yesterday told The Daily Star the authorities had not demolished a mosque adjacent to the grave as the High Court did not give any specific directive on the matter considering public emotion.
"We talked to the petitioner's counsel Manzill
Murshid about the matter and will bring it to the court's notice."
A caretaker of the grave, Abdul Mannan, said the district administration officials had verbally asked that the mosque be removed within 24 hours.
About the mazar, some locals present at the spot said it was the grave of a fourth class employee of Dhaka Medical College. In the 1990's, a group turned the grave into a shrine and grabbed the land belonging to the Shaheed Minar.
The place even became a drug spot and a place for people to meet their prisoner relatives sent for treatment to the medical college hospital from jail, they added.