Chaithwai Marma, Khagrachari Correspondent: Land grabbers are in the process of acquiring 17 acres of land for the road widening project at Ramgarh in Khagrachari hill district. Several land dusya syndicates are trying to embezzle the acquisition money by forging documents of land owned by more than half a hundred people along the three kilometer road from Ramgarh Bazar to Sonaipool.
Not only that, many have built new structures in the hope of more compensation. The information of some dishonest employees of the local land office and the violence of the land bandits was found in the on-site investigation of these irregularities.
According to the local administration, the rightful owner of the land will be given a fair amount as compensation for the acquisition. Seventy-year-old Monir Ahmed. This old man of Darogapara of Ramgarh Upazila is now spending his days in fear of losing the land registered in his name. Land acquisition is underway on both sides of the road from Ramgarh Bazar to Sonaipool for widening of the road for the proposed land port at Ramgarh. In this, the owner of the land in Monir Ahmed’s own name became another person on paper.
The victim, Monir Ahmed, said that he is the owner of the land at No. 77. Now spot number 78 has been created. The land office is not telling the owner of the plot No. 78. Not only Monir Ahmed. Ramgarh’s half-century landowners do not know in whose name the ownership of the land is being included in the acquisition document.
Under the umbrella of the influential mahal, the land grabbers have forged the land registration and registration and registered the ownership and Khas land in their own name on the basis of fake documents, affidavits and affidavits. There are also complaints of ownership claims by showing the land documents of other areas in the acquired land area. Helpless victims against this syndicate of embezzlement of government crores of rupees.
Along with locals, names of residents of Khagrachari Sadar, Dighinala, Matiranga Upazila, Chittagong and Feni districts have emerged in document fraud. Based on the information given by the land office, some of them have admitted to buying and selling land.
Ramgarh land office surveyor Jahangir Alam is the target of land fraud. But in his statement, he seemed to know nothing. Jahangir Alam’s statement what happened before his birth. Ramgarh Upazila Parishad employee Mahmudul Hasan and local resident Suman Dharke frankly admitted how the land became the owner.
A meeting was held to brief local administration stakeholders on the situation arising out of land acquisition in Ramgarh. In the meeting Khagrachari Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) K.M. Yasir Arafat also assured to determine the real owner of the land through open and public hearing and to pay fair compensation for the acquisition.
Chairman of Ramgarh Upazila Parishad Biswa Pradeep Karbari said that there are many complaints about the road widening project centered on the construction of land port in Ramgarh. No unscrupulous person will be given advantage here. Compensation will be paid to the actual land owner after verification. If anyone from the land office is involved in these irregularities, action will be taken against him subject to proper proof.
Baroyarhat-Heyako-Ramgarh road widening of Chittagong will come under acquisition of 17 acres of land in Ramgarh section. Although there are several business establishments including educational and religious institutions, many are said to be building new establishments in the hope of more compensation.
