Settler grabs land in Kobakhali

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News No. 191/2009, November 14, 2009

A Bengali settler has grabbed 1.2 acres of registered land belonging to Niron Chakma, 40, in Kobakhali village under Pablakhali Mouza in Dighinala.

Mr. Niron Chakma (son of Nitipurna Chakma) alleged that one Yunusur Rahman s/o Anisur Rahman had begun ploughing the land since 5pm on 12 November.

By the night the same day he had prepared the land for planting.

Producing documents relating to the said land, Niron said, “The land is registered in the name of my father, the Khatian No. of which is 90.”

He further said that a case is still pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate and that in an arbitration facilitated by the authorities of Dighinala cantonment earlier it was clearly stated that the said land belongs to the Paharis (Jumma).