The High Court on Tuesday directed the concerned authorities in Pabna to recover the ancestral house of Suchitra Sen, Bangla movies' legendary actress, from land-grabbers within seven days, and to protect and preserve it henceforth.
The secretaries to the home affairs and land ministries, Pabna's deputy commissioner and superintendent of police, deputy inspector general of police (Rajshahi range) and Pabna Sadar thana's officer-in-charge were asked to submit a compliance report to the court within 10 days after taking action against the illegal squatters.
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order after hearing a public interest litigation writ petition filed by a rights organization, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, which referred to a report published on July 13 in the daily Shokaler Khobor that Suchitra Sen's house was not being freed from the illegal possession of Jamaat members.
The bench also asked the concerned authorities to explain in two weeks why their failure to take appropriate legal steps against those who had occupied Suchitra's house should not be declared illegal, and why they should not be directed to ensure protection of the house.
Manzill Murshid, who represented the rights organization, sought the High Court's directives to free Suchitra's paternal home from illegal occupancy.
Screen legend Suchitra Sen turned 80 on April 6. She was born in her maternal grandfather's house in Bhangabari village in Pabna, and grew up at Gopalpur in Pabna town. Unfortunately her ancestral home is still occupied by the Imam Gazzali Institute, despite popular resentment in the locals. The people of the district want the historic house to be freed from illegal occupation and restored to its former condition.
Suchitra, whose original name was Rama Dasgupta, started her academic career at Mahakali Pathshala in Pabna town, and later studied at Pabna Girls School (now Pabna Government Girls High School).
According to the elderly people of the district, Suchitra's father Karunamoy Dasgupta left Pabna with his whole family just before the Partition in 1947.
Source : New Age
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