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Influentials threat octogenarian FF to withdraw case


Published : 01 Jun 2021 08:13 PM

Some local influential people of Fursundi village in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila has been threatening veteran freedom fighter and retired Army personnel Hafizur Rahman to withdraw a police case that he had filed against some unscrupulous people of the village.  

Those unscrupulous people have allegedly cut down his trees and grabbed his land properties and now demanding huge ransom. To get out from the clutch of the influential people, Hafizur Rahman has been moving here and there for some time. 

Octogenarian Hafizur Rahman along with his wife has been living in his village home after marrying off their three daughters. Their son was serving in Dhaka. Taking advantages of his illness, the influential people had cut down his tree worth Tk 70 thousand forcibly.  They had also grabbed a few decimals of his land.

 The freedom fighter said land grabber Madhu, Mohan and Aswini Kumar had been pressurizing him to sell his house and surrounding land against nominal price. As he had refused to agree with the proposal, they had demanded a ransom of Tk five lakh to Hafizur Rahman and swooped on him with lethal and sharp weapons on April 6 noon. They attackers had beaten up his wife Rokeya Begum and daughter Shahnaj Parvin and snatched away a golden chain. Finding no other alternative, the elderly man had filed a case against three persons with Jhenaidah Sadar police station on April 12.

As the police had arrested three accused Madhu, Utpal and Mohan, their associates had rushed on his house and threatened to withdraw the case. Since then Hafizur Rahman and his wife has been feeling insecure.

Kamal Kazi, an accused in the case when contacted, had denied of his involvement in the incident. He said those entire allegation was untrue and a conspiracy against him. 

Fursundi union parishad chairman Advocate Abdul Malek when contacted, said Hafizur Rahman has been harassed by the opponents in the village. He had tried to settle the problems time and again, while the accused were not responding in the issue and running their evil doings ignoring the law in the state.