For fishing in ban period
A hearing and speech impaired youth was kept tied for three hours in the sun on Friday on charge of catching fish during the ongoing ban period.
Tipu, 19, son of Abdus Salek of Goshuntara village in Kawkhali upazila under the district, was caught by fisheries department men while he was fishing in Chirapara canal, witnesses said.
With hands tied from behind, Tipu was kept sitting in the sun on the stair of a pond at the upazila office premises from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Meantime, a guard from the upazila office gave him some rice.
As local journalists protested the incident, fisheries department men untied the boy and took him to Kawkhali Police Station from where he was later released.
Asked about the matter, Manoj Kumar, Kawkhali upazila fisheries officer, said, "Tipu is a professional fisherman. Earlier we caught him two times. To keep him sitting we tied only his hands."
“We informed his parents. But none of them came. In the evening one of his relatives took him away, promising that Tipu will not catch fish in the ban period," he said.
To help safe breeding of fishes, the authorities concerned have imposed a ban on fishing from October 12 to November 2.
Abdul Motaleb, president of Kawkhali Union Matsajibi Samity, told the local journalists that Tipu's father kept his fishing boat with fishing net anchored as it is banned time for catching fish. But without informing anybody, Tipu went to catch fish with the boat in the canal.
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