Kalachan Poddar husband of Ms.Minu Rani Poddar has been illegally detained in the jail custody on 5th of March, 07 at about 12.00 p.m.
I have been informed yesterday by Ms.Minu Rani Poddar of Patuakhali district over her Cell telephone that her husband who is a renowned income –tax practitioner of Income Tax Bar of Patuakhali district has been arrested and detained by the order of the District Magistrate-Patuakhali most illegally because they filed a looting case No.193/07 in the court of Patuakhali Magistrate court against the land grabbers and extortionists on 26.02.07. Initially the local Patuakhali police did not record the case, later on the Magistrate directed the Officer-in-charge of Patuakhali PS for recording the case on pressure from HRCBM-Dhaka.
Now the situation is that the District Magistrate most illegally passed detention order on some vague allegations against Kalachan, which are not consistent with the previous case at all. There is no remedy other than challenging this detention order of the ADM in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Every body of the locality
On the other hand the destitute lady Ms.Minu Poddar has got no sources to challenge the order of detention order.
I am sending the detention order and grounds signed by District Magistrate,Patuakhali and other documents for your kind perusal.
We HRCBM should come forward for protection of rights of this Poddar family. The illegal detention of Kalachan should be taken into consideration very urgently. False cases against Kalachan family one after another by the perpetrator filed to harass the minority family.
Kalachan Poddar (58) – an income tax minority lawyer of Income Tax Bar Association of Patuakhali district. He is known as amiable and law-abiding citizen of Bangladesh. Everybody knows him in his locality as the honest and dedicated personality. One Ismail Howlader on the basis of false documents had been claiming properties belonging to Kalachan Poddar. He filed a false case number 41/96 for specific performance of contact against Kalachan on false plea of purchase in the court and the court by its order dated 25.04.1999 dismissed his case as not maintainable. He filed miscellaneous case against the dismissal order and Kalachan got injunction order from the High Court of Bangladesh vide civil revision No. 5195 of 2005.
Despite injunction order of the high court some perpetrators most illegally and with an object to harass the family members of minority family and also to grab the landed properties lodged a G.R. case No.46 of 2007 against Kanchan Poddar and his wife Ms.Minu Poddar at Patuakhali Police station. Patuakhali Police most illegally arrested the couple and physically assaulted Kalachan Poddar in a room and sent them to jail custody on 02.02.2007. In this opportunity the perpetrators forcefully occupied dwelling house of Kalachan Poddar located at Mukul Cenema Hall and looted belongings and destroyed many articles amounting to Taka 42,55,500/-. During their stay in the jail custody the perpetrators again showing the date of occurrence on 26.01.2007 filed another false case on 11.02.2007 against the victims and their Hindu relatives and which has been registered as G.R. case No.64 of 2007 for further harassment.
Kanchan Poddar and Ms.Poddar got bail from the court and approached HRCBM-Dhaka for their restoration at their dwelling house occupied by some perpetrators. HRCBM-Dhaka contacted with the local administration and took initiative for their restoration. Thereafter, Ms. Minu Poddar filed criminal case No.193 Dated 26.02.2007 against 15 perpetrators and others; police has yet arrested perpetrators nor recovered the looted materials from the possession of the perpetrators.
Mr.A.G.M. Mir Moshiur Alam, the District Magistrate, Patuakhali without any legal basis and on vague allegation arrested Kalachan Poddar under Section 3(2) of Special Powers Act,1974 and detained in the custody on 06.09.2007 and copy of such detention order has been served upon the Kalachan on the ground of public safety to prevent him from doing prejudicial act.
HRCBM-Dhaka have already investigated the matter on 9th March,07 at the spot and detailed investigation report will follow.
Prepared by-
Rabindra Ghosh