The DCC and Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (Rajuk) bulldozed the newsstand recently, although the newspaper hawker produced all the valid documents in favour of it, Samity President Md Mostafa Kamal said in a press release yesterday.

He said the Samity earlier filed a writ petition with the High Court after the city corporation had demolished a number of newsstands without issuing any notice. Following the writ petition, the court gave an order not to demolish any newsstands without issuance of notice, he added.

The Samity president said over 100 newsstands were built in Dhaka and its suburbs in 1984 and rented to hawkers who are paying the rent regularly.

He urged the mayor to take necessary steps to rebuild the newsstand adjacent to Dhaka City College.