chtnews.com
News
No. 48/2012, Tuesday, July 10,
2012
There
are allegations that Bhobesh Chandra Das, a Bengali settler, have grabbed lands
belonging to two Jumma villagers in Suaripata village under Bhushanchara Union
of Barkal Upazila in Rangamati district, reports Samakal, a national Bengali
daily.
According
to the report, published in today’s issue of the paper, Bhobesh grabbed the
lands belonging to Joy Kumar Chakma and Purno Kumar Chakma, and is now trying
to oust them from their homesteads by making false allegations of illegal
occupation and theft against them.
A
notorious litigant and land thief, Bhobesh Chandra Das sold out the grabbed
land to Md. Montaz, Shahidul, Kamal from Kalabunia and Motaleb from Gorstan.
This
prompted Joy Kumar Chakma to submit a written complaint to the Upazila
chairman, who asked the Officer-in-charge of the police station to take
necessary actions about the allegation.
Later,
the local elders formed an arbitration committee in the presence of the police
to sort out the matter.
The
arbitration committee met twice and disposed of the case by delimiting the
boundary between the lands owned by Joy Kumar Chakma and Bhobesh Chandra Das.
Although
Bhobesh Chandra initially accepted the decision of the arbitration committee,
he, however, afterwards began to encroach on their lands.
When
Joy Kumar Chakma and Purno Chandra Chakma protested, Bhobesh filed two cases
with the Rangamati Judge’s court against them – one for land grabbing and the
other for theft.