Mahabub Alam :
A team of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the country’s only national anti-graft body, is facing grim complexity initiating a probe into a land-related dispute.
The land, measuring 20-katha, is located at Gulshan-2 in the city.
According to the ACC, Engineer Azim Uuddin owned the land in 1960. After his death, his wife Hafiza Begum owned the property and the Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakha (RAJUK) also knew that.
Suddenly and surprisingly in the middle of 2005, a woman introducing herself as Hafiza Begum and wife of late Engineer Azim Uddin claimed the ownership of the land.
The similar name of the two women and also the name of the husband have put the anit-graft watchdog in great difficulties with the matter. The ACC team has already gone through the documents
submitted by the two sides and found those legal. That is why, it has fallen in confusion.
The ACC said that Hafiza, wife of Engineer Azim Uddin, also died in 1984. Subsequently, their son Azmat Hayat had been living there since then setting up a house since 1988.
Unfortunately, Azmat also died later and his only son Asif Ahmed took position over the land in 1994.
The woman, who claimed ownership in 2005, produced all the documents before the RAJUK in favour of her ownership. The RAJUK by scrutinising those found legal.
On October in 2011, the woman also registered a baiyna deed (advance formula) with Nurul Islam Babul, a businessman, to sell the land. The businessman paid her Tk 6.10 crore in presence of former law official of the RAJUK Ashraf Ali Mandal. Wazuddin and Monir, who worked as middlemen, were also present that time. As she did not handover the land to the businessman, he filed a decisive case with Bhatara Thana on March 21, 2013 against alive Hafiza and the middlemen.
Former RAJUK official Ashraf and middleman Wazuddin served in jail for few days in this regard.
On the other hand, Asif Ahmed, the grand-son of Engineer Azim Uddin with a view to selling the land took Tk 3 crore in advance from a real estate company. When he went to claim the ownership as per power of attorney from the RAJUK, it failed to decide. Asif later filed a writ petition with the High Court in 2012. The court issued ‘stay order’ twice for 12 months. A sign board is found hanging there in the name of the real estate company. Having failed to take any decision, the RAJUK sent a letter to the ACC requesting it to look into the matter in 2013.
The ACC formed a probe team in this regard. The team comprising Assistant Director Rafiqul Islam interrogated alive Hafiza last week. It also summoned several persons of the two sides. On condition of anonymity, an ACC officer said, they interrogated several persons of the two groups.
Of them, mystery had been sensed in the speech of alive Hafiza. She said that she had studied up to class five. Yet she was claiming as wife of an engineer, he added.
Asked about the past history of the land, she answered but it was somewhat perplexing, he said.
But it is a question, if she is fake, how could she obtain the documents? The officer questioned.
ACC confuses whether some RAJUK officers and its panel lawyers helped her in making the documents, he said. The ACC investigation officer said that he was in a dilemma with the matter. Azim Uddin had only one marriage.
A team of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the country’s only national anti-graft body, is facing grim complexity initiating a probe into a land-related dispute.
The land, measuring 20-katha, is located at Gulshan-2 in the city.
According to the ACC, Engineer Azim Uuddin owned the land in 1960. After his death, his wife Hafiza Begum owned the property and the Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakha (RAJUK) also knew that.
Suddenly and surprisingly in the middle of 2005, a woman introducing herself as Hafiza Begum and wife of late Engineer Azim Uddin claimed the ownership of the land.
The similar name of the two women and also the name of the husband have put the anit-graft watchdog in great difficulties with the matter. The ACC team has already gone through the documents
submitted by the two sides and found those legal. That is why, it has fallen in confusion.
The ACC said that Hafiza, wife of Engineer Azim Uddin, also died in 1984. Subsequently, their son Azmat Hayat had been living there since then setting up a house since 1988.
Unfortunately, Azmat also died later and his only son Asif Ahmed took position over the land in 1994.
The woman, who claimed ownership in 2005, produced all the documents before the RAJUK in favour of her ownership. The RAJUK by scrutinising those found legal.
On October in 2011, the woman also registered a baiyna deed (advance formula) with Nurul Islam Babul, a businessman, to sell the land. The businessman paid her Tk 6.10 crore in presence of former law official of the RAJUK Ashraf Ali Mandal. Wazuddin and Monir, who worked as middlemen, were also present that time. As she did not handover the land to the businessman, he filed a decisive case with Bhatara Thana on March 21, 2013 against alive Hafiza and the middlemen.
Former RAJUK official Ashraf and middleman Wazuddin served in jail for few days in this regard.
On the other hand, Asif Ahmed, the grand-son of Engineer Azim Uddin with a view to selling the land took Tk 3 crore in advance from a real estate company. When he went to claim the ownership as per power of attorney from the RAJUK, it failed to decide. Asif later filed a writ petition with the High Court in 2012. The court issued ‘stay order’ twice for 12 months. A sign board is found hanging there in the name of the real estate company. Having failed to take any decision, the RAJUK sent a letter to the ACC requesting it to look into the matter in 2013.
The ACC formed a probe team in this regard. The team comprising Assistant Director Rafiqul Islam interrogated alive Hafiza last week. It also summoned several persons of the two sides. On condition of anonymity, an ACC officer said, they interrogated several persons of the two groups.
Of them, mystery had been sensed in the speech of alive Hafiza. She said that she had studied up to class five. Yet she was claiming as wife of an engineer, he added.
Asked about the past history of the land, she answered but it was somewhat perplexing, he said.
But it is a question, if she is fake, how could she obtain the documents? The officer questioned.
ACC confuses whether some RAJUK officers and its panel lawyers helped her in making the documents, he said. The ACC investigation officer said that he was in a dilemma with the matter. Azim Uddin had only one marriage.
