Guwahati, May 14 (IBNS): Setting a good example of inter-faith amity, a Hindu family in Assam’s Lakhimpur district has donated their land for Muslim burial ground.
According to the reports, the family members of late Karunakanta Bhuyan of Garehaga area in the northern Assam district had donated a piece of land measuring 1 bigha 2 katha and 19 lecha to Nahar Pukhuri Kabarstan located near North Lakhimpur railway station.
The Muslim burial ground also shares its boundary with the Hindu crematorium ground in the area.
Recently, a meeting was organised by the governing body of the Muslim burial ground where the family members of late Karunakanta Bhuyan were felicitated for that occasion.
The governing body chairman Dr Hamidur Rahman had chaired the meeting and the family members of late Karunakanta Bhuyan had donated the land for the Muslim burial ground.
Jayanta Kumar Dutta, family member of late Karunakanta Bhuyan said that, his father had purchased the land in the name of Karunakanta Bhuyan, who is his maternal uncle.
“He is my maternal uncle’s son. My father had purchased the land in the name of my maternal uncle. We have donated this land for the burial ground,” Jayanta Kumar Dutta said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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