UNO ATTACK Ghoraghat OC withdrawn, 2 sent to jail

The officer-in-charge of Ghoraghat Police Station was withdrawn on Friday, a week after the attack on upazila nirbahi officer Wahida Khanam on September 3.

Dinajpur superintendent of police Mohammad Anwar Hossain told New Age that officer-in-charge Amirul Islam was withdrawn as a routine procedure.

He, however, told local reporters that the withdrawal this morning was due to ‘negligence in duty’.

Meanwhile, two arrested house painters Nabirul Islam and Santu Chanda were sent to jail on Friday after five-day remand each.

Wahida and her father Omar Ali were seriously injured in an attack by assailants at her official residence  on September 3. The Detective Branch is yet to disclose the name of the attackers and is claiming that a single person was involved in the attack though earlier the Rapid Action Battalion rounded up three local youths, including a local Juba League leader. 

Wahida, who sustained severe head injuries in the attack, underwent an surgery on the night of September 3 and kept recovering from her injuries at the National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital in Dhaka.

She is likely to be shifted to a cabin from high dependency unit of the hospital today depending on her health condition, hospital doctors said.

OC’s withdrawal was the first-ever action taken against any government official after the attack on UNO Wahida.

Meanwhile, the RAB-arrested three persons in connection with the attack who are now in seven-day remand in Dinajpur detective branch of police custody, who is now investigating the case.

DB investigators said that the attack on Wahida and her father Omar Ali was premeditated and an act of anger and was carried out by only a single assailant.

A senior police official said they managed to identify the assailant, however, kept his name under wraps so that the course of investigation is not hampered.

Earlier, the RAB said that the three arrested Asadul Haq, a member of Ghoraghat upazila Juba League, who was immediately expelled from the youth organisation, and house painters Nabirul Islam and Santu Chanda, were among the attackers and they broke into the officials residence of the UNO for burglary.

Many, including the government ministers and Bangladesh Public Services Association officials, are not convinced that burglary was the motive behind the attack.

DB investigators said that they will shortly produce the attacker before the media at a press conference and give details of the motive behind the assault.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday afternoon, construction worker Mottaleb Hossain (38) was taken for interrogation.

The police officer said that Mottaleb and some other construction workers would be interrogated further on Friday morning and then released. The construction workers include Humayun, Mottaleb, Lal Miah and Shaheen Hossain.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net