Barisal medical to file case against tree plunderers

5 October 2009, 17:00 PM

UNB, Barisal

The authorities of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (BSBMC) will lodge a case in connection with felling 63 trees on the campus and looting them during Eid vacation. The decision was taken at an academic council meeting yesterday with Principal Prof Syed Zahid Hossain in the chair, campus sources said. Meanwhile, the authorities served notices on three college employees and five members of a security service company, asking them to explain why necessary actions will not be taken against them for their negligence of duty. College employees Saheb Ali, Jabbar Molla and Saidur Rahman and five members of Prima Contract Security Service were on duty on the campus during the vacation. On Saturday, a day labourer was arrested and sent to jail under Section 54 for collecting leaves and branches of the trees allegedly looted by Sramik League leader Tuhin. Local people said Tuhin, also a CBA leader of Barisal Water Development Board, cut down 63 trees and saplings on the premises of Dr Mainul Hasan Hostel and campus police camp and looted them during Eid vacation. Tuhin was not available for comment. But his elder brother Azizur Rahman Shahin, a Swechchasebok League leader and general secretary of Barisal-Patuakhali Minibus Malik Samity, told the news agency that the trees were planted by their father before the government acquired those lands for expansion of the campus.