Selling of 18 Trees 'for Mosque'Follow-up
KJRI official being taken to task
Senior scientific officer of Kishoreganj Jute Research Institute (KJRI) Enayetur Rahman Chowdhury has been withdrawn from the office and sent to Dhaka.
Disciplinary action will be taken against him on the basis of the probe report on alleged selling of trees and tube-well of the institute by him, Md Kamal Uddin, director general of KJRI told this correspondent on Monday.
Earlier, The Daily Star, published a report headlined 'Trees felled, tube-well sold for building mosque at KJRI' on June 8.
According to the report, Enayetur Rahman Chowdhury allegedly took the decision to sell 18 trees worth around Tk 5 lakh of the institute illegally to timber trader Chan Mia, who later felled those trees.
Enayet also sold an old deep tube-well for Tk 25 thousand without permission of higher authorities concerned in the name of construction of a mosque at the institute.
On June 9, a three-member committee was formed to probe the allegations.
Headed by D Abbas Ali, chief of BJRI genetic and seed resource department, the other members are Dr Md Mujibur Rahman, chief of farm management unit, BJRI and Md Abdul Matin, sub-director (finance), BJRI.
The committee submitted its report to BJRI DG Kamal Uddin on Sunday.
Without elaborating, Kamal Uddin said yesterday that a disciplinary action will be taken against Enayetur Rahman Chowdhury soon after going through the details of the investigation report.
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