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'Punish arrested Jubok officials, round up others'

1 March 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

A Correspondent, Chandpur

Field workers and organisers of Jubo Karmasangsthan Society (Jubok) and its depositors yesterday laid seize to Chandpur Deputy Commissioner's Office demanding punishment to five detained Jubok officials and arrest of other fugitives. Demanding realisation of their due money from Jubok, the demonstrators led by Jubok's local organiser Rehana Akhter submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through the district administration. Chandpur ADC Md Mominur Rashid received the memorandum on behalf of the deputy commissioner. In the memorandum, they alleged that Jubok has embezzled over Tk 40 crore from several thousand youths of Chandpur by creating societies in different names under its MSP, MDPS, HSTL and MTB projects from 1998. When the Jubok officials were asked to return the money, they started repression, filing false cases and using criminals to threaten them, says the memorandum. The five detained officials are now threatening to not pay back the money to the subscribers and harass them after coming out of jail on bail, it added. Field workers and organisers of Jubok held a press conference on Mission Road in the town on Saturday in protest against the threat. Branch organisers and field workers from different parts of the district were present at the conference presided over by Jubok Hajiganj branch organiser Prof Abul Bashar Miah.