Land grabber assaults CDA engineer

8 April 2009, 18:00 PM

CU Correspondent

An engineer of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) was injured in an attack allegedly by a land grabber and his men in the city's Colonel Hat area yesterday. The injured, Nirmal Kumar Dutta, sub-assistant engineer of the CDA, is undergoing treatment at Metropolitan Hospital in the port city. CDA sources said Magistrate Mohammad Osman Gani recovered a CDA land from the illegal occupant in Colonel Hat Residential Area on April 5. When a team comprising CDA engineers and labourers went to the spot to construct a boundary wall at around 9:30am, Gazi Abdur Rahman and his men swooped on the team, injuring Nirmal and a labourer. CDA Assistant Engineer AHM Mizbah Uddin claimed that the attackers used sticks and hurled brickbats at the CDA team. The injured labourer was given first aid.