Three policemen, including Constable Golam Rahman Didar, a former driver of Banani Police Station OC, who owns 64 houses and shops in a slum at a government place in the capital's Karail. The other two are Constable Samsuddin and Abdul Malek. They took part in the sale of illegally built slums and local unscrupulous political influential people as well as slum houses. They are earning lakhs of rupees every month by renting the house and shop in Karail slum area.
Allegedly, the owner of this illegal house in the slum for a long time was others. Police members used their influence and identity to buy these houses at a much lower price than the market price. The sellers also occupied them illegally for a long time. The Karail slum area became a 'home' with a bunch of houses. The four houses are owned by three members of the police, pucca, semi-pucca and tin houses. Two of these are two-storey houses.
Slum dwellers say that when policemen come to perform government duties, they send the wrong message to the society. The police formed an immoral alliance with those involved in various illegal activities around the slums. Thousands of ordinary slum dwellers were deprived.
It is known at first hand that one of the places of drug trafficking is Karail slum. Drugs are exchanged there in various ways. There is also illegal gas, water and electricity in this slum. But in the midst of that illegal business, these law-abiding policemen are buying and renting houses.
According to the information, Golam Rahman Didar is currently working in Gulshan police station. He has two two-storied houses in Beltala Bhangawal slum of Karail. Constable Samsuddin, the current driver of Banani police station, has a house. He bought a tin house but demolished it and started building a mud house. He is known as Samchu police in Karail. Constable Abdul Malek of the special branch of the police has a house. He was also in charge of Banani area at one time.
Banani police OC said. Noor Azam Mia told that he did not know whether any policeman had bought a house in the slum. If anyone has bought it, it is outside the rules of the police.
According to the investigation, about three years ago, police constable Didar bought 21 houses and 4 shops in Beltala Bhangawal slum from a then studio businessman Raju in Karail slum for Tk 16 lakh. Didar was driving the OC of Banani police station at that time. Currently working in Gulshan police station. Recently, the reporter went to Didar's house to talk about renting a house. One woman turned the house around. The ground floor roof of part of the two-storey house. The total number of houses below is 10. There are four tin and seven tin houses on the two-storey concrete walls. The woman said that the rent of each house is five thousand rupees. The rent of a tin house is two and a half thousand rupees. When asked who owns the house, he said, "There is no point in knowing who owns the house.
It is learned that Mir Zahidul Haque is a homeopathic doctor in charge of the house. Her homeo pharmacy is in Didar's shop house. Occasionally in the evening Didar would go there to search the house. Didar has another two-storey house in the slum. He bought it from a woman named Nishi. It is located on the left side of the road from Beltala slum to Boubazar slum. The ground floor is ripe. Brick walls on the second floor, tin on the top. All the three rooms on the second floor are rented. Downstairs are three shop rooms. Pharmacy. Yellow-pepper breaking factory and another blacksmith shop.
When asked, Constable Didar told that the two houses are not mine. I got acquainted with Banani police station. The two houses were bought by my two friends Ujjwal and Billal. But everyone knows it's mine. So I tell myself my home.
Once he says that the house is not his own, another time he says that it is his own. They do business in Mirpur.
However, Raju, a home seller, confirmed to this reporter that he had sold the house to police constable Didar through a stamp. Didar's name has been stamped as the owner.
The investigation further revealed that the house seller Raju currently lives in his village home Jamalpur. After selling the house, he was forced to move to the village. But sometimes he came to Karaile. Police and influential people have harassed him in various ways. Raju was also arrested by the then SI of Banani Police Station Abu Taher Bhuiyan as an accused in the pending case. Taher was then in charge of Karail Bit. It has also been alleged that SI Taher illegally took Rs 20,000 from Raju in the name of clearing the road to his house in the slum. The reporter spoke to Raju on the phone. After learning the journalist's identity, he refused to speak for fear of the police and influential leaders of the ruling party. Later he said, 'Your work is over as soon as you write. I have to go to Karail from time to time. I may be in danger. ' At one stage, Raju further said that he had several houses in Beltala Bhangawal slum and Boubazar slum. The two-story half-finished house that he sold to Didar was bought by him about 11 years ago. Three years ago, he sold it to Didar with a stamp of Rs 300 for Rs 16 lakh. As it was a government place, there was no opportunity to register or document. That is why slum houses are sold on the basis of stamps. He could have sold the house to the common man for at least Rs 30 lakh. He had another tin house next to the house. There are 15 houses. Besides the tenants, he also lived there with his wife and children. The exit of the residents of these houses is on the east side of Didar's house. Local volunteer league leader Junaid and his associates blocked the road with the help of police after buying Didar's house. Raju alleges that SI Abu Taher assisted in blocking the road. Later, Abu Taher demanded Rs 50,000 from him in the name of clearing the road. Raju gave Abu Taher 20,000 rupees in cash in the hope of finding a road. He later demanded another Rs 30,000. Raju did not get the road because he did not pay this money. Junaid handed over the house to SI Abu Taher. Abu Taher continued to harass Raju in various ways so that he was forced to leave the house. Not only that, Raju was also threatened to leave the house. At one point Raju was forced to leave the house. A year or two ago, Junaid stamped 15 houses in his own name for Rs 200,000 from Raju.
Regarding the allegation, SI Abu Taher Bhuiyan told that he was transferred from Banani police station to the police headquarters about a year ago. He does not know anyone by the name of Raju. He did not take money from anyone in the name of paving the way. He does not even remember the arrest in the pending case. He knows Junaid. However, he claimed that he did not help Junaid in buying the house. "After all this time, all the false allegations are being made against me," he said.
Information came out of two policemen as well as two tin houses on Boubazar Road. One belongs to Constable Abdul Malek and the other to Constable Samsuddin. The slum dwellers know the two houses as Malek Police and Samchu Police. 4-5 years ago, Abdul Malek bought 16 tin houses and two roadside shops from a man named Dulal for four lakh rupees. At present he is charging Rs 2,800 per month from each house and Rs 12,000 from two shops. Malek was working in an intelligence unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) when he bought the house. He is currently working in a special branch of the police.
Admitting to buying the house, Constable Abdul Malek told that he had bought the house from a man named Dulal 4-5 years ago. Rented slum houses and two roadside shops. He claims that buying a house is not an irregularity.
The house next to Abdul Malek belonged to a Bhangari trader named Yasin. A couple of months ago, Constable Samsuddin bought a roadside shop and 14 houses for Tk 7 lakh for Tk 7 lakh. He opened a tin house and started building a two-storey house. Samsuddin is the driver of Banani police station.
FConstable Samsuddin admitted to buying a house in the slum and told, 'Everyone bought, I also bought. When the government evicts the slums, mine will also be evicted. What is the problem?
