‘Recover govt land adjacent to Monem Khan's house’

The High Court today directed Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) to recover the government land designated for greeneries adjacent to the house of Abdul Monem Khan, the then East Pakistan's provincial governor who had opposed the birth of Bangladesh, at Banani in Dhaka.

The court also ordered the authorities concerned of the government to connect the electricity line of the house, where Monem Khan's predecessors have been living, in three days, if it is disconnected during recovery of the government land measuring around 14 katha.

The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath passed the order after rejecting a writ petition filed by AHM Kamruzzaman Khan, son of Monem Khan, challenging the legality of a DNCC order that had asked the family of Monem Khan in 2009 to free the land meant for greeneries.

DNCC lawyer Advocate Ahsanul Karim told reporters that Monem Khan's inheritors had been illegally occupying the land meant for greeneries as per the layout plan devised by the then Dhaka Improvement Trust (DIT), which is now Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).