POBNEWS24. Dhaka, Apr 12, 2021: Keeping the properties belonging to members of minority community is not a new issue in Bangladesh where 85 percent are Muslims and 15 percent are from other religions.
Hindu property was not occupied even after the abolition of zamindari system after the partition.
Since the independence of the country on December 16, 1971, a group of people under the banner of the ruling party swopped on Hindu property, which has now been intensified.
The property of Radha Binod Pal, a Judge of Tokyo Trial from Bangladesh, was occupied.
Devatar’s property has also been captured in Narayanganj near the capital Dhaka.
In most of the cases, the victims hesitate to approach police as they do not get any remedy from the law enforcers.
Dr. Radhabinod Pal was a Bengali lawyer and former Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. He served as a judge at the International Military Court for trial of War Crimes in the Far East after World War II.
Following the World War II, 28 Japanese military and civilian leaders were put on trial for war crimes what was known as the “Tokyo Trial”.
The world-renowned lawyer Radhabinod Pal, who was among the 12 judges at the trial, was born at Kakiladah in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district in Bangladesh.
The country could have erected a monument in the name of Radha Binodpal on the land he owned in Bangladesh.
Radha Binod Pal’s patrimonial property in Bangladesh was about 25 acres. Different groups of people kept the property under their occupation.
In another incident, thousands of men and women of the Hindu community have gone on a symbolic hunger strike in protest against Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy and her family’s attempt and threat to seize property worth hundreds of crores of taka.
Narayanganj District Puja Celebration Committee President Deepak Kumar Saha and General Secretary Shikhan Sarkar alleged that the family of Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy wanted to swallow the Zeus pond, a property of Laxminarayan Ji Vigraha Temple.
Fake documents are being used to seize the property by the Mayor Ivy’s mother, two brothers, uncle, aunt and other relatives.
Plaintiff Govinda Ghosh and other Hindu leaders are constantly being threatened for filing a case against it.
Recently, a group of journalists working for Indian media in Bangladesh went to Narayanganj from Dhaka to investigate the matter and witnessed the occupation of the land.
In this incident, several local journalists have been attacked and sued by the ruling party men.
Mayor Ivy could not be reached for comment.
Prominent Hindu leaders have strongly demanded the government of Bangladesh to protect the property of Radha Binod Pal and the property of Devtar in Narayanganj.
