Commission. Accordingly, UNO
reported that they found four persons
chained in that family and all of them
were intellectually disabled. The UNO
rescued them and got them admitted
into Pabna Mental Hospital. Besides
they were given relief from hon’ble
Prime Minister’s fund. Three of them
are getting disability allowance and
necessary actions have been taken to
provide the allowance for the
remaining one.
The body was smashed at the decision
of the arbitrator (Suomoto 11/20)
The Kaler Kantha reported on 14 June
2020 that the body was smashed at the
decision of the arbitrator. It was
reported that Motaleb Ali was giving
indecent proposal to a house wife in a
village
of
Pirganj
Upazilla,
Thakurgaon. As the house wife denied
the proposal, Motaleb lodged false
complaint against her son and nephew
that they stole his mobile. On this
allegation, in a village arbitration led
by UP Member Jahirul Islam, the two
boys faced inhuman torture. The house
wife filed case in Police station but no
perpetrator had been arrested and they
were giving threat to her for
withdrawing the case.
NHRC sent letter to the Police Super of
Thakurgaon for informing NHRC
about the status of the case and arrest
the perpetrators. The police super
informed
NHRC
that
during
investigating the case the IO arrested 01
and 06 no. perpetrators and surrendered
them to the court. After investigation,
the IO submitted chargesheet against
10 perpetrators to the court. They are
working on this case.
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Eviction of Ethnic Minorities (Suo
moto 12/20)
On 31 August “71 television” reported
that 130 families of ethnic minority are
living with fear to be evicted due to
residential project of Christian
Catholic people in Parila Union, Paba
Thana, Rajshahi. These families were
living in this area for 20 years.
Christian authority sold the land to
Christian
Cooperative
Housing
Society. The Society published
advertisement for selling the land and
they were asking high price which was
unbearable by the ethnic minorities
who were living in that land.
NHRC sent letter to Deputy
Commissioner of Rajshahi to take legal
action. DC reported that the owner of
that land was church authority. Thus, it
was not possible to arrange shelter for
the ethnic minorities in that land.
Government could buy that land and
then handed over to these landless
people. The mission authority
promised that no landless family would
be evicted until the matter was resolved
in a peaceful way.
Complaint No.- e-file
Dailly Samakal reported on 21 August
2020 that despite being freed on bail,
police arrested 90 year old man and
surrendered him to Chief Judicial
Magistrate Court. NHRC believes that
this case is a gross human rights
violation. Thus, NHRC sent letter to
Public Security Division of Ministry of
Home Affairs to investigate the matter
and take action. The Ministry informed
that ASI (NI) Abu Taher and ASI (NI)
Md. Shofiqul Islam arrested the old
man out of negligence or carelessness.