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104 people grab govt houses

List placed in JS

Staff Correspondent
Krishak Sramik Janata League chief Bangabir Kader Siddiqui, a deputy commissioner of police, some of his colleagues and a number of retired government officials are on a list of 104 people who illegally grabbed an equal number of abandoned and government-owned houses in the capital.
State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan yesterday placed the list in parliament.
In a scripted reply, the state minister said that in support of grabbing a House on Babar Road at Mohammadpur, Kader Siddique claimed, “Father of the Nation Bangabandhu had sold the House to him [Kader Siddique] and he, therefore, sought documents of the house from the government.”
According to the list, a deputy commissioner of police has grabbed an abandoned house at Babar Road in the capital.
Talking to this correspondent, Kader Siddique said, "After the 1971 Liberation War, Bangabandhu himself came to this house and gave it to me at a token price — taka one. Bangabandhu also gave me necessary papers for the house, which were lost after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975."
He added. “If the [state] minister considers me the grabber of the house, then
Bangabandhu was the grabber, not I,”
Kader Siddique also said he had applied for necessary documents to the past Awami League government and also the BNP government with no response from them.
The list shows that of the 104 illegal grabbers, some are members of the police force, some are former army, police or ansar personnel and some are retired or forced to retire government officials.
Besides, the state minister claimed, a good number of people grabbed aban-
doned houses, claiming that they are family members or relatives of martyred or war-wounded freedom fighters.
The list shows some members of the police force have grabbed an abandoned house on eight kathas of land at Patuatuli in capital.
Besides, another group of police personnel has grabbed an abandoned house on 5.54 kathas of land at Zinda Bahar second lane in the capital.
The state minister, however, did not mention anything about recovery of the abandoned houses from the illegal grabbers.