About two weeks ago I wrote about allegations against a Bangladeshi military government Advisor’s husband and company. At the time I wrote about the odd silence of the Bangladeshi media in (not) reporting on the story.
Today, all that changed.
The New Age reports:
A landlady named Farhana Islam on Wednesday lodged a criminal case against Nazim Kamran Chowdhury, husband of the industries adviser, Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury, and eight others for reportedly beating her.
Metropolitan magistrate Hemayet Uddin heard the case and asked the Gulshan police officer-in-charge to register the complaint as a first information report if the allegation on investigation is found true.
Farhana alleged Nazim Kamran had rented her building at Gulshan Circle 2 on condition that he would vacate it by September 30. The petitioner in a notice asked Nazim, who used the house for business purposes, to vacate the building after the rental agreement had expired.
As Nazim kept staying in the house illegally without paying rent and other bills, payment, the Dhaka Electric Supply Authority severed the electric connection to the house on the complaint of the landlady.
‘As Nazim tried to run generator at my house without permission, I protested at his doing so. Nazim and his men then on October 23 beat me with iron rods and tore my sari,’ Farhana told the court.
Others accused in the case are Geteeara’s younger brother Abu Rushd Tarek, Shamsun Nahar Tarek, Mukim Choudhury, Shakhawat Hossain Shahadat, Adit Bhagat, Ripon, Bipul and Yaar Ali.
As the police did not register the complaint, she moved the court, Farhana said.
In addition to the New Age, the Daily Star, The New Nation, and BDNews24 carried the story. The Bengali language papers Ittefaq, Amader Shomoy, Shomokal and Daily Dinkal also carried the story.
The media in Bangladesh have suddenly discovered this story after ignoring it for nearly three weeks. There are many strange happenings taking place in Bangladesh lately, not the least of which is the sudden disappearance of the military ruler of Bangladesh.
You have been away too long from Bangladesh. Trick or treat is the way things are still done here. For the landlords to fight it out in the courts would have taken years. So the easy way is the make belief world. Give the dog a bad name than hang the dog.
One can see through the rich land owners whose property is worth a few million $ but their heart is that of a sicko.
Let the law takes its own course.
Reaz, you are right, I may have been away too long. But how do you explain the reports in the Bangladeshi newspapers – surely they understand the “trick of treat” culture that you speak of. I also thought this military government had cleaned up the culture of “trick or treat”. I am alarmed to hear that it still persists. Clearly the “anti-corruption” drive needs to go into overdrive! :d
hi mash.
everything is well understood except the relation u tried to establish with the incidents and the military rular.
is it not funny ?
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