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<i>Seized dates disappear</i>

6 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Bogra

A large quantity of dates, which was seized as a case evidence on October 8 in 2007, have gone 'missing' from Bogra Sadar Police Station. After seizure of about 1770 kg 'low quality' dates worth about Tk 1,77,000 from Joyati Falbhander in Bogra town during an anti-adulteration drive, Sanitary Inspector of district health department Md Shah Ali Khan filed a case with Sadar Police Station against Mizanur Rahman Manju, police and court sources said. Asked about the seized dates by Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Ziaur Rahman during trial of the case, police informed the court that the seized dates were destroyed on the premises of Bogra Police Lines following a court order. In a reply to a court order to show supporting legal papers, Sadar Police Station Assistant Sub-Inspector Md Abdul Aziz Mondal on June 3 submitted a report saying that there were no documents regarding destruction of the seized dates. Former OC of Bogra Sadar Police Station, Hasan Shamin Iqbal told The Daily Star over cell phone yesterday that the dates were buried following a court order during his period but somehow the documents were 'misplaced'.