Relief rice seized from AL leader’s house
Government officials have recovered a whopping five and a half tonnes of rice belong to vulnerable group development programme from the house of a local Awami League (AL) leader in Naogaon's Raninagar upazila.
Ayat Ali, 60, a member of Kaligram union AL, is also a rice trader, said Al Mamun, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of the upazila.
Khandaker Makammam Mahmuda, upazila women's affairs officer, came to know about the matter on Thursday when she was monitoring the distribution of VGD rice -- allotted for the ultra-poor women.
She immediately informed the matter to UNO Mamun, who then raided the house of the AL leader along with police and the local union parishad chairman and recovered the rice.
They did not find Ayat at home as the family said he was on the run.
The UNO said hoarding and trading of VGD rice are prohibited and stern action would be taken in this regard.
Naogaon Deputy Commissioner Harun-Or-Rashid told The Daily Star that he was informed of the matter.
Asked, how the AL leader could get a hand of such big amount of rice allocated for the government's social safety net programme, the DC said they would investigate the matter and the culprit would be brought to book.
A case was been filed with Raninagar Police Station in this connection yesterday.
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