Tk 1 crore forest land recovered
A mobile court recovered forest land worth Tk 1 crore from illegal occupants at Bhannara under Kaliakoir upazila on Thursday.
Gazipur district administration demolished a boundary wall of Haji Ismail Hossain Spinning Mills that was established grabbing around 80 decimals of land of the Forest Department over the last few years, Kaliakoir range forest department sources said.
After a failed attempt by the forest department to evict the illegal grabbers, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mahmudul Kabir Murad, First Class Magistrate Mahmudul Kabir Murad, Assistant Commissioner (Land) Rafiqul Alam, forest officials and Kaliakoir police freed the land from the illegal occupants in a combined raid.
The forest department planted some tree saplings on the recovered land.
The UNO said the other illegal occupants of forest land would be evicted in phases.
The factory officials were not available for comments.
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