The Bogra district administration has filed a civil case to recover 29 decimal government land at Bogra New Market area worth about Tk 60 crore which alleged war criminal Rafique Khan and his associates grabbed immediately after the War of Liberation.
Bogra additional deputy commissioner (revenue) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury said defunct Muslim League supporter Rafique and his sons grabbed the government land through false documentation.
Before his death on January 4 last year, Rafique in a written reply to the case filed by the government said that he was general secretary of the Bogra District Peace Committee during the Liberation War and that some businessmen constructed 110 houses on the land without municipality approval afterwards.
His sons Rabbi and Belal Khan are fighting the case on behalf of their late father.
However, some of the businessmen who are cooperating with the government to recover the valuable land said before his death Rafique earned about Tk 5 crore from the land. He earned another Tk 5 crore as house rent from the land.
A businessman said after independence Rafique was sentenced to 5 years in jail in a case filed against him under Collaboration Act. But he didn’t serve time as he was on the run for a long time. Later he was granted clemency under general amnesty.
Although evidence of Rafique’ appeal to the government made in 1974 claiming himself to be a Pakistani citizen was unearthed, a high official in the district administration said the case remained cold because both former deputy minister for land Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and ex-BNP MP Noor Afroze Begum Jyoti sided with the deceased.
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