Narinjara News
A woman may get a 3
years imprisonment for the construction of a house on her own land
Akyab, July 22: A woman, Ma Tha Nu from Akyab
city, has been facing a lawsuit in district court, for constructing a house on
her own land, said a lawyer from Akyab.
Ma the Nu was detained by police in February of this
year, on Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo’s order, as she
was building a one story building on her land.
Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo is a chairman of
The plot is located at the Kondam quarter of Akyab, and had been confiscated by government authority
from Ma Tha Nu’s family,
for the Burma Oil Company, in General Ne Win’s era.
After the SPDC came to power, the military government returned some confiscated
lands, by the previous government authority, to concerning owners.
Ma Tha Nu had received the
plot back from the government, but the Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo has not
allowed for any building to be constructed on the land.
She went to
During the construction of the house, the Akyab
Municipal erected a signboard, stating the official permission, in front of the
Ma Tha Nu house compound.
One day, while Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo was crossing that area, he saw the
construction of the house. He then ordered the authority to arrest Ma Tha Nu and to have her tried in
court.
Since then Ma Tha Nu has
been pleading her court case from the Akyab jail,
having not been granted bail.
“She may get 3 years imprisonment when the court will sentence above her case
in the next week because Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo pressured to the court
authority to sentence at last 3 year imprisonment to her due to against his
order,” the court’s prosecuting lawyer added. #
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