RHD engineer in jail
A sub-assistance engineer of Roads and Highways Department in Panchagarh Mahfuzur Rahman was sent to jail on Tuesday in a tree cutting case. Judicial magistrate Md. Abdul Malek rejected the bail prayer of Mahfuz and passed the order in the afternoon. Earlier, Beat Officer of Tentulia forest department Abdul Hamid filed a case on 29 April with Tentulia police station against Mahfuzur Rahman and his associates for felling over a hundred roadside trees of Forest Department in Panchagarh. In the case the complainant said that on 24 April about 30/40 people led by the sub-assistance engineer cut down trees beside Tentulia-Panchagarh highway between Majhipara BDR camp and Tiyagoach village despite forest department's objection.
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