The Chattogram city's drug hot spot and scrub colony, a sanctuary for smugglers, illegally built on railway land bordering three police stations of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police has been cleared.
The eviction drive was conducted under the leadership of Chattogram Divisional Land Property Officer of Railway East Zone Mahbubul Karim and Chattogram District Administration Executive Magistrate Jamshed Hossain Rana on Sunday.
The railway authorities recovered 1.01 acres of land by evicting 362 structures and evicting almost 1050 illegal occupants.
Later, Pritilata Memorial Preservation Parishad surrounded the Chattogram divisional manager's office premises of Railways with the students of various schools including the local student society, youth society, various social welfare, mosque committee, temple committee, Labour League, Chhatra League, demanding the eviction of the scrub colony.
The memorandum was issued to the Commissioner of Police and senior railway officials. Today's evacuation operation was carried out in continuation of that.
It is known that this scrub colony under the Akbarshah police station of CMP is a border area of Khulshi and Pahartali, so the law and order forces were struggling to suppress crime. RAB, police, detectives and journalists have been attacked several times while fighting crime.
Chattogram Divisional Railway Manager Abidur Rahman supervised the evacuation operation and Chattogram Metropolitan Police Deputy Police Commissioner Mostain Hossain visited the land.
