Moudud evicted from Gulshan house

Rajdhahi Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) on Wednesday took over Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Moudud Ahmed's Gulshan house following a court order.

"We launched an eviction drive around 11:00am and we've already taken over the house," said RAJUK executive magistrate Waliur Rahman in the afternoon.

Earlier, the utility services like gas, water and electricity of the house were disconnected while its valuables and furniture removed.

The RAJUK started the eviction drive to take over the property as the Supreme Court ordered it to mutate the 1.13 bigha land at Road-79 of Gulshan-2 where Moudud Ahmed had been residing since 1981.

On Sunday, the Appellate Division dismissed two petitions filed by the BNP leader seeking a review of its earlier verdict scrapping his possession of the property.

A large number of police were deployed around the house to avert any unpleasant incident during the eviction drive.

Senior RAJUK officials were present.