The BR recovered a piece of railway land beside Tejgaon Khelaghor playground allegedly encroached on by one Rowshan Ara and her relatives for many years and another piece in the same area allegedly grabbed by Abu Sayeed Mollah.

The BR authorities also partially knocked down a four-storey house on Tejgaon Station Road, a portion of the Karwan Bazar fish market and other establishments beside the railway tracks.

In another drive, the DCC recovered the three-storey Charuta Market located beside Mahanagar Mohila College at Sutrapur.

Sources said a few politically powerful people of Sutrapur and old Dhaka areas grabbed the market for years.

The DCC officials were reluctant to mention the names of the grabbers. "We did not give importance to who the grabbers were. We just recovered the market," Shamsul Alam, deputy estate officer of DCC, said.

The DCC eviction team also demolished a one-storey structure built on an encroached space for car parking, sources said.

The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) did not conduct any drive yesterday.

PABNA DRIVE
An eviction team recovered 40 decimal (1.25 bigha) land worth Tk 10 crore demolishing the Pabna bus stand illegally built on the land of the local health department about 35 years ago.

Magistrate Arif Ahmed led the drive jointly conducted by the army and police.

Two associations of Pabna motor owners and labourers grabbed the land during the Liberation War, health department sources said.

The district administration tried to demolish the bus stand on several occasions earlier but failed due to protests from the motor owners and labourers.