Follow upTheft of Madhyapara Detonator Cords
2 security officials punished for 'negligence of duty'
Authorities of Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) temporality suspended two security officials yesterday for 'negligence of duty', the day after stealing of eight detonator cords from the explosives storehouse of MGMCL.
They are Probir Talukdar, deputy manager (Security), and Md Monwar Hossain, assistant manager (Security), of the company at Madhyapra village in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur.
"The probe committee has found negligence of the two officials in connection with the stealing incident," said Mohammad Moinuddin, managing director of MGMCL, a company of state run organisation Petrobangla.
The three-member probe team, formed after a few locks of the warehouse were found broken on Tuesday morning, submitted their report yesterday, saying that eight detonator cords went missing from there.
The team will file another report today on how the stealing incident took place and whether any other official of MGMCL are involved, said Mir Md Abdul Hannan, head of the probe team.
The gates of barbed wire fence and the mud wall surrounding the storehouse, located around two kilometres from the administrative building of MGMCL, remained sealed off when the locks of two of four houses of the storehouse were found broken on Tuesday, officials said.
There are two sub police stations and an army camp for the security of Barapukuria 250MW Power Plant, Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd and MGMCL belonging to a first class Key Point Area, sources said.
But the army camp set up at the compound of Barapukuria Power Plant is around 15 km away from MGMCL.
On several occasions, the MGMCL officials urged the home ministry to set up an army camp at the complex but to no effect yet.
"On February 15 last year, I wrote a letter for setting up an army camp in this area but we are yet to get any positive response," said AM Mostafa Ferdowsee, DGM (Administration) of MGMCL.
Meanwhile, the authorities have decided to construct a boundary wall for safety of the explosives storehouse, said the MGMCL managing director.
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