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Ctg Killing Field

Work going on despite HC order

Staff Correspondent, ctg
Defying a High Court status quo order, University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC) authorities allegedly continue their work on an under-construction building at Pahartali Badhyabhumi, a war-time mass killing ground, in the port city.
After noticing the private university authorities' defiance of the court order, Prof Gazi Saleh Uddin of Sociology Department in Chittagong University filed a general diary (GD) with Khulshi
Police Station on Saturday.
Contacted, USTC Director Najibur Rahman told The Daily Star he had no information about the construction work on the ground and the GD.
Prof Saleh Uddin in the GD said the university authorities were doing the construction works in the darkness of night violating the court order.
The under-construction building was fitted with doors and windows following the instruction of USTC Vice-Chancellor Prof Nurul Islam, he alleged.
Md Obaydul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station, confirmed about the GD.
“Receiving the written complaint, we visited the spot,” the OC said adding that it is not possible for police to ensure vigilance at the spot during night hours.
USTC Director Najibur
said “The varsity authority went to the killing ground on February 21 to pay homage to the martyrs. After that day, we know nothing about any construction work there."
Echoing the comments of Najibur, USTC Registrar Shamsujjoha said he knew nothing about the matter.
Prof Saleh Uddin told The Daily Star Pahartali Badhyabhumi is the biggest mass killing ground of the country where hundreds of people were slaughtered by Biharis during the Liberation War.
“The USTC authorities are gradually trying to wipe out the history of the struggle of Bengali nation through this kind of step”, he alleged.
The private university authorities started construction work of a building on the ground in2008.
Later the same year, noted writer Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Prof Gazi Saleh
Uddin, Milly Rahman, Prof Muntasir Mamoon and Md Azizur Rahman filed a writ petition with the High Court for preserving the land.
In2011,thecourtissueda status quo order upon the petition for putting an end to any construction and development work on the ground.
It also formed a committee to identify the mass graveyard in the ground.
Saiful Karim Chhotan, a resident of Khulshi, said locals caught four construction workers red-handed from the spot last year and handed them over to police.
“In the last one week, many doors and windows were fitted by the university authorities in the second and third floors of the underconstruction building,” he said.
As the ground is surrounded by many tin-shed houses, it is hard to notice any construction work going on over there, Saiful added.