SC upholds HC order to free Suchitra\\\'s house from grabbers

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld Sunday the High Court order to free the ancestral home of legendary actress Suchitra Sen in Pabna town from illegal occupation and set up an archive of her memorabilia therein, reports UNB.
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Justice SK Sinha, passed the order after hearing an appeal filed by Ayub Hossain Khan on behalf of the Imam Gazzali Institute, which is currently operating a school in Suchitra Sen's house.
Additional attorney general Murad Reza argued for the government at the hearing while the AZ Mohammad Ali stood for the petitioner.
Sen's ancestral homestead was temporarily leased out by the government back in 1987.
The leasees set up the Imam Gazzali Institute at the homestead. The government issued a notice to the Institute to free the homestead on June 22, 2009.
Challenging the notice, Ayub Hossain Khan, a trustee of the Institute, filed a writ petition with the HC later on.
The HC on August 18, 2011, denied the writ petition and ordered the authorities concerned to free the homestead from illegal occupation, and to set up an archive of Sen's memorabilia in that homestead within two months of the order.