Criminals ransack LGED office in Patuakhali
Executive engr, officials attacked
The ransacked office room of the executive engineer of Patuakhali LGEDPhoto: STAR
Criminals attacked the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) officials and ransacked the office room of its executive engineer here on Wednesday. Saeed Ahmed Baset, executive engineer of Patuakhali LGED said, at about 8:00 pm, a gang of 25/30 members entered his office room and attacked him. As three staffs--Kamal Hossain, deputy assistant engineer, Masud, roller driver and Hafiz, MLSS --tried to save him, the attackers also physically assaulted them. After that they ransacked his room and left the place. On information, Rab and police officials visited to the spot. Later, Baset filed a general diary (GD) with Patuakhali police station in this regard yesterday. In the GD, he identified four people. However, Tapan Chandra Saha, OC of the police station would not disclose the names in the 'interest of investigation'. All the attackers belonged to ruling party, several eyewitnesses told this correspondent. 'After joining here I found many irregularities and I planned to take lawful action against the officials responsible and contractors involved in those works. This might be the reason behind the attack,' Baset told journalists yesterday noon. On the other hand, six local contractors submitted a memorandum to the chief engineer of LGED yesterday noon demanding removal of the executive engineer. In the memorandum they accused the executive engineer of corruption and harassing the local contractors. However, Baset refuted the allegations terming them 'false and fabricated.'
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