Developers out to fill up Turag for unknown project
Bamboos and goran logs which arrived last Tuesday were piled up at the roadside, workers were sawing the bamboos into pieces, while some were carrying those to a newly filled up patch of land in the Turag river.It was apparent some more areas would be demarcated for earth filling.The workers were very busy there. For around one month they were working on this site. Once a patch of land was fenced and filled up, their supervisor asked them to repeat the process in the next stretch of water in a silent and slow move to grab the river.Asked about the supervisor, one worker pointed to a bearded man standing on the edge of a filled up area, which was part of the river just a month ago."This is private property. Locals are filling it up," commented the bearded man and tried to walk away.As The Daily Star correspondent stopped and asked him his identity he introduced himself as Zakir Hossain and said he works for a construction project of 'DOM INNO'."This is not a river. This is our land. We have documents that we bought it from the locals," Zakir claimed.He however could not say how much land they have 'bought' and how much they are going to fill up."It depends on the locals," he tried to argue but eventually gave in and left giving the phone number of the office manger of 'DOM INNO'.The office manager identified himself as Subrata over phone and said, "We have 100 percent clear papers. We did not fill up the river. Even we left out 10 feet from our land."But he could not immediately say anything about the documents; he rather offered the correspondent to visit the spot with him so that he could 'prove' they were not filling up the river.The width of the river here is not more than 30 to 45 feet as they have fenced a part of the river, put polythene in the waters and are filling up the river with dredger. Near the 'DOM INNO's 'land' another group of around 50 workers were filling up the river using boats. They could not be contacted and identified as they were in the middle of the river and there were no signboards there either.On the left, two signboards were erected in the water which read "The owners of the land are Rahima Binte Majibur Rahman and Abdullah Bin Majibur Rahman". They have mentioned their CS (cadastral survey) number as 25 and 5 under the Vatulia Mouza in Uttara police station which used to be under Keraniganj during the British rule.In the CS survey it was seen the land in ledger number 5 and 25 as not parallel. But they have shown that in parallel position which raises the question about accuracy of their documents.Asked over phone, Md Noman, brother-in-law of Majibur Rahman, said they have 100 decimals of land by the Turag. He could not say how they 'bought' a single patch of land with two ledger numbers far away from one ananotheraccording to the original documents."I don't know how, but we have land there," Noman claimed.
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