Led by first class Magistrate and Divisional Estate Officer Delwar Hossain, a railway team demolished more than 50 structures including two two-storey buildings and a market on its land at the western side of Borobazar.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Akhaura Kamrul Alam was present during the drive.

The team demolished one Yasin market comprising 10 shops in it. Advocate Yasin illegally built the market on the railway land some 35 years back, said the magistrate.

They also demolished a two-storey building where a medicine shop of Sadhona Oushadhalay was established some 70 years back.

One Harun-ur Rashid Bhuiyan claimed that their family took the possession of the land from the Moharaja of Agartala in 1936 and produced papers in favour of his claim.

But the magistrate and the UNO did not listen to him and demolished the building, he added.

Harun said he will go to court.

The team also demolished more than 40 other tin-roofed structures including two stationery shops, two fertiliser shops and two wholesale rice shops.

One Ali Azgar Kha claimed that he and his relatives are the actual owners of the land since Pakistan period and he, too, will go to court.

Meanwhile, the railway authorities evicted some 65 families who had been residing on the railway land since the liberation of the country.

One Zohra Khatun told this correspondent that a former employee of railway allowed them to live there in exchange for toll revenue.

They are now living under the open sky, she added.