Religious Affairs Adviser Dr. AFM Khalid Hossain today spoke at an event held at the Railway Bhaban. Photo: CA -GOB Facebook

DHAKA, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS) – Religious Affairs Adviser Dr. AFM Khalid Hossain has assured of extending cooperation to recover the ancestral properties of the Hindu community which have no cases.      
   
“We will extend cooperation in recovering the lost ancestral properties of the Hindu community, for which there are no cases in the court,” he said.

He was addressing a ceremony organized by Bangladesh Railway for handing over allotment papers of railway lands to two mosques and a temple at a symbolic price in the capital’s Joar Sahara Mouza of Khilkhet and Cantonment areas held at the Railway Bhaban today. 
 
Referring to the allocation of railway lands to mosques and temples as a unique example of communal harmony, he said that Bangladesh is a role model of communal harmony and amity.
 
“Still, some isolated incidents happen at different times. Those who want to desecrate religious institutions or places of worship have no religious identity, they are miscreants, criminals,” he said.
  
Dhaka Divisional Railway Manager Md. Mohiuddin Arif handed over the allotment papers to the management committee of the mosques and temple at a function.
 
Of the allotted lands, 0.2011 acre (8760 sq ft) of land was allotted for Khilkhet Railway Jame Mosque in Joar Sahara Mouza under Dhaka Cantonment Police Station, 0.0552 acre (2405 sq ft) for An-Noor Jame Mosque in the same Mouza, and 0.0562 acre (2450 sq ft) for Khilkhet Sarbajanin Sri Sri Durga Temple in the same Mouza under Khilkhet Police Station.
 
The lands were allotted in exchange for the symbolic price determined by Bangladesh Railway.

Railway Ministry Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, Religious Adviser Dr. A.F.M. Khalid Hossain, Primary and Mass Education Adviser Professor Dr. Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder, Special Assistant to the Chief Advisor in the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges and Railways Dr. Sheik Moinuddin, Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser Shafiqul Alam, Secretary to the Ministry of Railways Md. Fahimul Islam, Director General of Bangladesh Railway Md. Afzal Hossain, among others, were present.