The Appellate Division has ruled that Barrister Tureen Afroz’s mother, Shamsunnahar Begum, may now reside in her own house starting from Monday, May 5. The court also directed the lower court to proceed with resolving the related civil cases. Earlier, on February 19, the High Court bench of Justice Md Selim annulled a lower court order that had imposed a status quo on the Uttara property dispute involving Shamsunnahar and her son Shahnewaz. As a result, lawyers confirmed there were no legal barriers preventing their residence in the house. The legal dispute arose from a family conflict over the ownership and possession of a five-story building on Plot 15, Road 11, Sector 3 in Uttara. According to Shahnewaz and Shamsunnahar, they had been living there since 2002 until Tureen allegedly used her influence in 2017 to evict them. Both sides filed civil suits over the property’s ownership in a joint district court. Tureen claims her father, under a power of attorney granted by Shamsunnahar in 1992, gifted the property to her in 1994. However, her mother and brother deny this, asserting that Shamsunnahar transferred the property to Shahnewaz in 1997, who later formalized it through mutation and secured a housing loan to build the house. After a series of legal appeals and revisions, the High Court declared the status quo order void, paving the way for Shamsunnahar and Shahnewaz to lawfully reside in the house again, while the property ownership cases continue in court.