Bring attackers to book, arrest land grabber

Students under the banner of Adivasi Chhatra Parishad, an organisation of the ethnic students in plain land, yesterday demanded arrest and punishment of the land grabber who attacked four people, including two journalists in Nachole upazila on August 26.

Followed by a human chain, their demands came at a rally in front of Bangabandhu Mukta Mancha in the town.

They also urged the government to ensure the security of the indigenous people living in plain land and later submitted a memorandum (MoU) Chapainawabganj deputy commissioner to press home their demands.

Jatiya Adivasi Parishad President Rabindra Nath Saren, General Secretary Sabi Chandra Munda and Chapainawabganj Press Club President Golam Mustafa, spoke there, among others.

Locals said there had been a longstanding feud between local influential Tarikul Islam and ethnic people of Manikpara village over the ownership of a disputed pond and its adjacent land.

On August 26, Tarikul's men allegedly beat up four people, including two journalists, when they went to collect information about the dispute around 1:00pm.

Injured, Anwar Hossain Dilu, staff correspondent of Daily Prothom Alo, and Abdur Rob Nahid, journalist of a local daily Gour Bangla, were treated at Chapainawabganj Sadar Hospital