NCD raid in a Gulshan house raises questions

Staff Reporter :
Many questions have been raised over an operation by the Narcotics Control Department (NCD) in a house at Gulshan in the capital with fresh details surfacing about the raid.

Although there are several owners of that house, but only a case has been filed against one person named Omar Mohammad Bhai.

Meanwhile, he (Omar) did not live there for a long time, and there were many irregularities in the case and media reports, lawyers of the Omar Mohammad alleged.

The lawyers said that the evidence from their investigation shows that Omar Mohammad was victimised deliberately and wrongfully in the case.

It is known that on October 27, 2019, the Directorate of Narcotics Control conducted a raid at the house number 11/A, and 11/B of road number 57 of Gulshan-2 of the capital. The house belongs to the family of Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Chairman of Olympic Industries. At that time, several bottles of foreign liquors, beers, hookah pipes, cannabis, and casino equipment were seized.

Although no one was arrested in this incident, a case was filed with Gulshan police station implicating Omar Mohammad Bhai as the owner of the property.

But that property is jointly owned. According to Rajuk records, 10 names are registered in the ownership of the house.

According to legal sources, if the accusation was made for being the ownership of the house, then all the owners and residents should be accused in that case.

But only one of the property owners, Omar Mohammad Bhai, was accused in the case, while he left the property many years ago.

Speaking to the house staff and some employees of the building it was found that Omar Mohammad Bhai left the house in 2011, when he moved to his own property in Baridhara.

Since then, he has maintained his own residence.

They also said that after leaving he kept a distance from the household, citing that as the family is Aga Khani, there was some religious conflict when he married a Sunni Bangladeshi.

They also said he had some inherited property which was disputed in the family, and there was an ongoing conflict about this.

After investigation lawyers found that Omar’s brother used to live in the house. He (brother) and other relatives went abroad two days before the raid.

Later, Omar’s name was falsely involved in the case.

Legal persons familiar with the matter said they believe he was framed with the intention of making him the scapegoat, and to degrade him mentally, socially, and financially.

Employees of the property said Omar is a very family-oriented and charitable person, and were a founding Board Member of Entrepreneurs Organization, Bangladesh, an association of prominent business leaders.

It is impossible for such philanthropic people to trade narcotics and be involved in the accused activities.