Claims madrasa secretary
Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakhha (Rajuk) unjustly leased out a big plot to an association by taking the Waqf land of Naimuddin Madrasa at Baridhara in the city, claimed the secretary of madrasa at a press conference yesterday.
Md Shahidur Rahman, secretary (Motowalli) of Moulavi Md Naimuddin Mia Waqf Estate in Block-J of Baridhara, said his father Naimuddin Mia set up a Qawmi madrasa, a mosque, an orphanage and a graveyard in 1972 on the 104 decimal of land, now identified as plot-1/A.
Naimuddin signed a Waqf deed for the property and the establishment in 1986 and registered it with the Waqf administrator, said Shahidur. Naimuddin died in 1996 and was buried at the site.
Shahidur said he filed a case against Rajuk with the district judge of Dhaka in 2006 as Rajuk built a service road by the madrasa complex. The court issued an injunction on the property, he added.
“Rajuk leased out a 32-katha (40 decimals) plot to Madani Society taking the land from the Waqf estate, violating the court injunction,” said Shahidur.
None of the 15-member Shura Committee of the Waqf estate was present with the secretary at the press conference. He brought two locals — Abdus Sattar and Ali Akbar — along with him.
Nurul Islam, executive engineer of Rajuk (Gulshan – Baridhara), told The Daily Star that the said property is a part of the land acquired during Pakistan period in 1961 and it has not been derequisitioned yet.
The documents in favour of Waqf estate were created much latter in 1986, he said.
According to a High Court verdict, the land is a property of Rajuk, said Islam. “We will conduct further eviction drive against illegal structures on the government land,” he added.
About the leasing of a plot from the disputed property, Islam said he is not sure of it.
