October 25, 2007
Giti Ara Chowdhury: the New Godfather?
Shada Kalo Blog
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Dr. Mahbub Islam, a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston's Northeastern University and a tenured professor at St. Francis University in Pennsylvania moved back with his wife to Bangladesh a few years ago. He taught at a local university, and invested his hard-earned dollars into a realestate development company. He also built a building in Gulshan, and rented parts of it to Giti Ara Chowdhury and her husband. She is an adviser in the current CTG, and her husband was an MP in the BNP government. Mrs. Chowdhury has another identity: she is the sister-in-law of the chief adviser.
So we have the Army's chief of staff, Gen. Moeen, and the CA, Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, exhorting NRBs to invest in Bangladesh, while we have Mrs. Chowdhury, an adviser in the government and her husband violently attacking this university professor and trying to usurp his property.
An email to Shadakalo reads:
Giti Ara Shafia Chowdhury is again in the news. This time it is not for steamrolling over poor jute mill worker but for beating, threatening to kill and illegally grabbing a six storied building in Gulshan, Dhaka.
Dr. Mahbubul Islam, who is a professor of St. Francis University of Pennsylvania, and his wife Farhana Islam, jointly held a press conference today October 25, 2007 in Dhaka Reporters Unit conference room.
Mr. and Mrs. Islam who owns a six storied building in Gulshan Dhaka alleged that their property at Gulsha-2 Road number 41 holding 7A which houses Giti Ara's ad firm Adcom and his husbands firm Sign Age and Megnavision is been forcefully grabbed by Caretaker Government Adviser Giti Ara Safia Chowdhury and his husband Nazim Kamran Chowdhury for some time. Islam couple brought their complained to RAB unit1 commander on December 6th of 2006 but no justice been received.
On Monday 22nd of October Nazim Kamran Chowdhury, husband of Adviser Giti Ara himself, Adviser Giti Ara's brother Abu Rushed Tarak, cousin Mokim Chowdhury and along with their gang attacked Mr. Mahbubul Alam and his wife with iron rods and sticks. Mr. Mahbub was hospitalized.
Adviser Giti Ara's husband did not stop there--he slapped Mrs. Farhana Islam when she was begging him for his husband's life. Nazim Kamran tore her Shari and used savage language and threatened to kill her and her husband, asking his gangs to drive a pickup truck over her husband Dr. Mahbubul Islam.
Both of them appeared in front of journalist and described the torture of powerful adviser Giti Ara Safia and her family. They asked for government to save them from this powerful land grabbers.
Can Dr. Fakhruddin do justice or he will take the side of his beloved Sister-in-Law is yet to be seen. We heard lot of advice from Dr. Fakhruddin that no one in the country is above the law. Nation wants to see if Adviser Giti Ara Safia is above the law or under the law.
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