Illegal market on 76-decimal pond demolished in B’baria
A joint mobile court of Brahmanbaria district administration and Department of Environment on Tuesday demolished a market that was built encroaching on a large pond on Court Road in the town.
About 72 illegal shops and four tin-shed structures were dismantled in the drive led by Additional Deputy Magistrate of Brahmanbaria Mohammad Shamsuzzaman.
On August 2, The Daily Star ran a report on encroachment of ponds in Brahmanbaria town with the headline ‘Waterbodies disappearing in Brahmanbaria town’.
Executive Magistrates Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Tanima Afrad, Md Jubair Hossen, Saffat Ara Sayeed, Proshanto Baidya, members of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station and a team of Rapid Action Battalion-14 assisted the mobile court.
Last month, a market with corrugated iron sheet structures was built after filling up the 76-decimal pond, donated by former Zaminder Anando Mohon Chowdhury, locally known as Anando Babu, for constructing a Hindu temple, by an influential family related to a former deputy minister of the government.
According to land records, the pond is a donated property. But four brothers including Anisur Rahman Anis, Faruk Ahmed and Golap Mia -- all from the former deputy minister’s family -- claimed its ownership.
Additional Deputy Magistrate Mohammad Shamsuzzaman said the category of the property was changed illegally from pond to homestead a year ago.
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