HC orders ex-Gazipur DC to prison

Syed Mizanur Rahman, former Gazipur deputy commissioner, has been ordered to prison for evicting 40 families in violation of a High Court order in 2008.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 24 April 2014, 12:32 PM
Updated : 28 April 2014, 03:00 PM

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High Court Justices Sharif Uddin Chaklader and Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman sent him to prison for a month on Thursday.
Rahman, currently the director (Administration) of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), is set to lose his job, say lawyers.
The verdict comes following a plea by nine families, evicted in two stages during March 2008.
The defendants had demolished 15 tin huts, claiming the land belonged to Bhawal Raj Estate, their lawyer Khalilur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
“They did that despite a High Court order against the eviction.”
The judges in their verdict handed down a 15-day prison term to Abdur Rouf, Court of Ward manager of Bhawal Raj Estate, and also fined him Tk 10 million.
Assistant Manager Md Sabbir Hossain, Gazipur’s Land Reform Board Chairman Monirul Islam, and official Sri Sri Madhob were also ordered to serve five days in prison.
The court, however, exempted the then Superintendant of Police, Alamgir Alam, former Joydebpur Police Station OC Md Mizanur Rahman, and Assistant Commissioner (land) Md Shahjalal and Ansar Adjutant Pabitra Kumar Shaha.
They were penalised under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, which allows the guilty to be jailed for a maximum of six months, said Abul Kalam Azad, lawyer for an accused lucky to have been acquitted.