Ex-FM Hasan Mahmud, 112 others sued for illegal sand extraction from Ichamati River in Ctg

A case has been filed in opposition to weak international minister Hasan Mahmud and 112 others on allegations of illegally extracting sand from the Ichamati River in Chattogram’s Rangunia.

Chattogram Metropolitan Tanti Dal Joint Convener Nazim Uddin filed the case with the Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Court docket within the port city on Thursday (26 September), District Bar Association Well-liked Secretary Point out Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury Razzak suggested The Business Well-liked.

“The court docket acknowledged the criticism and ordered Rangunia police to investigate the topic and put up a file,” he added.

Moderately a few infamous other folks accused within the case encompass weak members of parliament ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury and Dipankar Talukdar, and Taibul Bashar Maizbhandari, son of weak MP Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari.

A few native leaders from Rangunia Awami League, Jubo League, and Chhatra League were additionally implicated.

Primarily primarily primarily based on the case statement, a sturdy syndicate led by Hasan Mahmud had been illegally extracting sand from a inclined distress on the south aspect of Ranirhat Bridge within the Ichamati River, harmful farmland owned by native farmers.

The criticism alleged that Hasan Mahmud and others fervent have accrued wealth price hundreds of crores of taka through these illicit activities.

Nazim Uddin, the plaintiff, diagnosed himself as surely one of the victims whose land had been destroyed, inserting him and others at possibility of dropping their homes.

He claimed that despite prior media experiences on the difficulty, no motion was taken by authorities as a result of the syndicate’s energy.