The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A housewife of Mohammadpur in the city yesterday urged all concerned to come forward to protect her family from eviction from her house by some criminals, who are hatching a plot to sell her property and giving them death threat

Nurjahan Begum, 48, at a press conference held at the Reporters' Unity, also urged the government to ensure her family's security and rescue her husband Syed Golam Mohammad, 60, from the trap laid down by his divorced 2nd wife Nilufer Yesmeen Pakhi and her brothers.

She said Pakhi's brother Pintu frequently gives them death threat and threatened her family members to vacate the house at Block-F, 2/12. Nurjahan Begum said, "Pakhi is maintaining illegal relation with my husband even after their divorce on July 17, 2004 and is forcing him to keep the illegal relation by threatening him with death."

Nurjahan's son Syed Sharif Ahmed Raju, 19 at the conference said Pakhi was the mastermind of the plot to evict them from their house in which they were living for many years.

Raju also said his mother was the owner of the house built on the plot bought by her at a cost of Tk 7.6 lakh in 1988. Later, his mother built the house, he added.

Nurjahan married Golam Mohammad in 1978 and the couple has one son and three daughters. Their eldest child is aged 29.

Nurjahan was an employee of the Bangladesh Secretariat and has been maintaining the family from the beginning of their conjugal life.