Phone unanswered
A ruling party panel chairman of Dinajpur Zila Parishad has threatened to skin an upazila nirbahi officer's back for not answering his phone.
Parbatipur UNO Tarafdar Mahmudur Rahman filed a general diary in this connection Wednesday night.
Citing the GD, Mostaq Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Parbatipur Police Station, said Panel Chairman Shafiqur Raihan Neta, also the information and technology affairs secretary of Parbatipur Awami League, went to the UNO office Wednesday afternoon and threatened him.
Witnesses said the AL leader attempted to assault the UNO and screamed at him for not answering his phone calls.
Being informed, police rushed to the scene and calmed the situation.
UNO Mahmudur told The Daily Star that his colleagues were upset at the “tyranny” of the AL leader and alleged that Shafiqur recently tried to extort Tk 50 lakh from a government office.
Contacted, Shafiqur denied the extortion allegation, but admitted that he misbehaved on Wednesday.
The AL leader said he had been trying to talk to the UNO about the expenditure details of 18 development projects worth Tk 2.38crore. But the UNO did not answer his phone.
He then alleged that the money was misappropriated. The UNO later denied the allegation.
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