Hindu family under threat

Premchand Robidas and his family in Aditmari upazila of the district are passing worrying time amid threat by a local tout who got their 35 decimals of land registered through forgery 15 months ago.

Premchand, 55, is owner of 116 decimals of land including homestead and 100 decimals of arable land at Goalpara village of Mahishkhocha union in the upazila.

“Last week, I came to know that local tout and drug peddler Shah Alam, 38, son of late Idris Ali, got my 35 decimals of arable land registered through forgery on February 5 in 2015, as he was trying to occupy my rest 81 decimals of land in the same way,” said Premchand.

“My five-member family depend on agriculture. I have no relation with the tout. I never gave away my photograph and voter ID card to anybody or put my thump impression on any paper,” said illiterate Premchand, known as a very simple and honest man in the village.

Premchand's wife Arati Bala Robidas said Shah Alam and his men are giving them threat as they complained to local people. 

"Two hundred people at the village sat together and asked Shah Alam to return the land to its owner Premchand. After this, an angry Shah Alam and his relatives are trying to file false cases against the villagers,” said Rafiqul Islam, a local.

Mosaddek Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of Mahishkhicha union parishad, said they will help Premchand to get back his land from Shah Alam.

Alam did the forgery with the help of Rokon Uzzaman, a deed writer of Aditmari sub-registry office, showing another tout as land owner, office sources said.

Asked about the matter, Rokon Uzzaman said, “It was a great mistake. I am trying to return the land to its owner Premchand from Shah Alam."

Contacted over mobile, Shah Alam declined to talk to the journalists.

Ruhul Amin, president of Deed Writers Association at Aditmari sub-registry office, said he will call a meeting soon to take necessary steps against guilty deed writer Rokon Uzzaman and help Premchand to get back his land.

Kamrul Hossain, sub-registrar of Aditmari sub-registry office, said, "Another sub-registrar was in charge during the forgery incident. A civil case has to be filed with the court, appealing for cancellation of the alleged false document. After its cancellation following court order, the land owner can take legal action against the tout, deed writer and others involved.”