UZ chairman sues Jubo League leader

Sadar upazila (UZ) chairman and district Jubo League general secretary (GS) yesterday filed cases against each other with Thakurgaon police station in connection with Friday's attack on the residence of the chairman.
Sultanul Ferdous, Sadar upazila chairman and general secretary of district unit Jatiya Party, said he filed a complaint against 158 people identifying eight including Jubo League general secretary Abdul Majid alias Apel and his relatives.
Locals said a group of Jubo League men led by Apel occupied the residence of Ferdous at College Para in the town Friday morning following a dispute over its ownership.
Meanwhile, Jubo League leader Apel filed a complaint against the upazila chairman, his mother Sultana Rezwan, brother Sultanul Naim and wife Sabina Yasmin and 40/50 unknown people.
During a visit yesterday, this correspondent found that the signboard and the bamboo made rooms were removed from the land.
Earlier, Jubo League men on Friday hung a signboard and set up bamboo structure on the occupied land.
Sultanul Ferdous claimed that they had been living in the house since 1961.
But Abdul Majid said his family purchased the 89-decimal land while his father Abul Hossain had rented out the land and the house to father of Ferdous Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury in 1964.