Citizen's body to make list of illegal hill-cutters

Speakers at the meeting held at its Mehedibag office said illegal hill-cutting creates serious water-logging, causes landslides killing people and is destroying the ecological balance.

The illegal act is going on in connivance with a section of corrupt officials and influential political leaders, they said.

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The meeting also decided to submit memoranda to the Department of Environment (DoE), district administration, police and Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) to take measures in this regard.

It also demanded compensation for deaths by landslides due to illegal hill-cutting.

Presided over by former CPA Chief Engineer Sultan Mahmud, the meeting was addressed by, among others, environmentalist Md. Musa, social worker Baktear Noor Siddquie, and journalists Mohammad Idris, Rafiqul Bahar and Samir Barua.

Meanwhile, two persons were held while cutting a hill illegally at South Khulshi in the city on Monday. The arrested persons are Shah Alam and Humayun Kabir alias Hemayet.

A case was filed with Khulshi police against the two and one Md Ali, who allegedly engaged them.