பங்களாதேஷில் இரண்டு லட்சம் இந்து குடும்பங்கள் நிலம் வீடு உடமைகளை இழந்துள்ளார்கள்.
அபுல் பரகத் என்ற டாக்கா பல்கலைக்கழக பேராசிரியரின் ஆராய்ச்சிப்படி 2001இலிருந்து இன்றுவரை சுமார் ஒரு லட்சம் பிகாவுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட நிலங்களை இந்துக்குடும்பங்கள் இழந்துள்ளார்கள் என்று தெரிகிறது.
இந்துக்குடும்பங்களின் நிலங்களை அபகரிப்பதற்கென பாகிஸ்தான் அரசாங்கத்தால் 1965இல் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கருப்பு சட்டத்தை 2001இல் நீக்கினார்கள். இருந்தும், 2001இலிருந்து இதுவரை இவ்வளவு நிலங்கள் இவ்வாறு அபகரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன என்று தெரிகிறது.
Two lakh Hindu families in Bangladesh lost land since 2001
Dhaka, May 26: Annulment of an act, which has long been considered a "black law" for the minority Hindus, appeared to have brought no good to them with a study report Saturday saying nearly two lakh families of the minority community lost their land since it was scrapped in 2001.
Nearly two lakh Hindu families lost 1.22 lakh bighas of land, including their houses, in the past six years since the Vested Property Act was annulled in 2001 to return the "vested" property to their original owners, said findings of a study carried out by an independent research group.
According to Abul Barkat, a professor of Economics at Dhaka University who conducted the research, some 12 lakh or 44 per cent of the 27 lakh Hindu households in the country were affected since the Enemy Property Act of 1965 was enacted.
The then Pakistani regime enacted the law to confiscate the property of the Hindu families who fled the country when the India-Pakistan war broke out in 1965 while the post independent Bangladesh government renamed it as the Vested Property Act 1974.
After a protracted campaign by the rights groups and different forums of the Hindu community the then Awami League government of ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina scrapped the law at the fag end of their five-year tenure.
Under the new law, an inventory of the still unsold vested property was due to be prepared within 90 days but the move was virtually stalled when her archrival Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led rightwing coalition formed the government.
According to the study, politically powerful people grabbed most of the land during the BNP-led regime from 2001 to 2006.
Bureau Report
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