Miscreants cut down 400 mango trees
Local miscreants have felled an entire mango orchard spreading over five bighas (around 1.65 acres) at Shailkupa upazila in Jhenidah Thursday night.
All of the 400 mango trees of different species in the orchard were chopped off while several mounds of mangoes were looted, said orchard owner Amirul Islam of Aruakandi village in the upazila.
Locals said, around 11:30pm on Thursday, they could hear the sound of felling trees form the orchard.
However, none of the locals dared to stop the miscreants in fear of the recent dispute in the area by local AL unit factions, they said.
On May 11, an AL activist named Tulu Shikdar died here in a factional clash between two groups of local AL unit leaders Saidul Mollah and Mokaddes Hossain, said locals and police sources.
Tulu's wife filed a case with the upazila police in this reagrd accusing 33 including the orchard owner.
Amirul, also brother of Saidul Mollah, said, though he had no involvement with the killing, members of the other faction led by Mokaddes allegedly destroyed his orchard and looted the mangoes.
Meanwhile, police suspect the offense might have been done by a local criminal group led by Osman Ali and Daud Hossain of Aruakandi village, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sagir Mia of Shailkupa Police Station.
Following the tree-felling incident, police launched a drive in the area the same night but could not catch any of the miscreants, said the OC.
Amirul has filed a case with Shailkupa Police Station in this connection.
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