BCL men muscle in on tender deals, beat officials
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists vandalised the room of the executive engineer of Public Works Department (PWD) in Sirajganj and assaulted an upazila project implementation officer in Feni over tender issues yesterday.
Our Sirajganj correspondent reported that police arrested town Chhatra League convenor Saidul Islam Babu on charge of ransacking the room of PWD Executive Engineer Md Noor Islam for not awarding the BCL leader a tender illegally.
Babu was arrested in Dhangora area of the town soon after filing of a case by the engineer with Sadar Police Station under the Speedy Trial Act against the BCL leader and his accomplice Rashedul Hasan. Rashed has gone into hiding.
After the incident, all officers and employees of the PWD office observed work abstention yesterday demanding punishment to the accused.
In the case statement, Executive Engineer Noor Islam alleged that BCL leader Saidul Islam Babu along with his accomplice Rashedul Hasan entered his office room at around 1:45pm and asked him to give him the tender of a project. “As I refused to meet the demand, they hurled abuse at me and ransacked my room,” he stated in the statement.
A correspondent from Feni adds: Parashuram upazila BCL activists yesterday assaulted Project Implementation Officer (PIO) Iqbal Hasan and confined him to his office room, bringing allegations of wrongdoing in lottery of a tender involving Tk 20 lakh against him.
Being informed, UNO Arif Ahmed Khan and Officer-in-Charge Nizamuddin rushed to the spot and rescued the PIO.
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