Finally, elderly couple to get house
Local administration has started building a house for an elderly couple who stayed in their neighbour’s cowshed in Rangabali upazila for a month after being cheated by their only son.
The prime minister asked local lawmaker Md Muhibbur Rahman to arrange a new house and a piece of land for Shukkur Dewan, 70, and his wife Sahura Begum, 65, after different newspapers published reports on the issue, said Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mashfiqur Rahman.
Being informed, the couple was rescued from the cowshed of Shahjahan Gazi in Kawkhali village on Saturday and they are now kept under the latter’s custody, he said.
On Sunday, they started building a disaster-resilient house for the couple under a project named ‘Disaster tolerance dwelling house building for homeless people, said the UNO, adding that it will take about a month to complete the construction work of the house.
Deputy Commissioner Md Matiul Islam Chowdhury also asked the UNO to give the couple Tk 10,000.
One acre of land will be given to the couple and it is now under process, said the lawmaker, adding that the couple will also be brought under all kinds of social safety net programmes including adult allowance.
Shukkur Dewan said he is very thankful to the prime minister as she ordered to give him a new house.
It is mentioned that around three months earlier, the couple’s son Mohammad Hasan tricked them into handing over all their property on 40 decimals of land in Kawkhali village.
The couple realised of their son’s deception only a month ago when Hasan left home secretly and Shukkur’s brother Tajem Ali Dewan evicted them from their house, claiming that Hasan had sold all their property, including their agricultural land, to Tajem.
Since then, neighbour Shahjahan Gazi sheltered Shukkur and Sahura in a cowshed. With all their four daughters married off and no other family member to care for them, their neighbours have been providing food to them.
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