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Suchitra Sen's Ancestral House

SC releases entire verdict for recovery

Ashutosh Sarkar
The Supreme Court yesterday released the full judgment in the case filed for recovering the ancestral house of Bangla film icon Suchitra Sen in Pabna, paving the way for the government to establish there a "Suchitra Sen Smrity Sangrohashala".
Imam Gazzali Trust, a Jamaat-e-lslami-backed organisation, has been occupying Suchitra's ancestral house at Gopalpur in the town for more than two decades. The organisation has been running a kindergarten named Imam Gazzali Institute there.
Suchitra, whose original name was Krishna Dasgupta, left Pabna along with her family a few months before the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and settled in India.
On May 4 this year, the Appellate Division of the SC in a short judgment had upheld the High Court verdict which had directed the government to take over the house of the silver screen legend.
In the 59-page full judgment released yesterday, the three-member bench led by Justice Surendhra Kumer Sinha said:"The High Court Division's direction upon the government to implement the decision to establish Suchitra Sen Smrity Sangrohashala without any delay to protect and preserve her birth place for her indubitable contribution to our cultural arena, is hereby reinstated, requiring the authorities to begin the process forthwith without any delay whatsoever by evicting the petitioner and his institute, if that has not already been done by now".
The other members of the bench are Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik. The Daily Star yesterday obtained a copy of the full judgement.
Even after the apex court passed the short judgment on May 4 this year, the district administration of Pabna did not take any step to remove the institute, saying that they did not get the full judgment.
Yesterday, Additional Deputy Commissioner (revenue) of Pabna Md Azmal Hossain told The Daily Star that they would take legal action after getting the printed copy of the SC verdict, reports our Pabna district correspondent.
As the full verdict is out, the people of Pabna are waiting to have the house freed from Jamaat's occupation.
"People of Pabna have been dreaming of freeing the ancestral house of Suchitra Sen for long. At last, we are very close to the fulfillment of our dream," Dr Ram Dulal Bhowmick, secretary of Suchitra Sen Smrity Shangrakhhan Parishad, told the Daily Star.
Cultural affairs ministry has already taken a plan to construct a cultural centre in the house, he added.
The district administration leased out the house to Imam Cazzali Trust for one year in 1987, and the organisation continued its occupation by renewing the lease every year.