Victims lay seize to swindler NGO at Satkhira as cheats flee
Agitated people yesterday laid seize to the office of swindler NGO 'Ain and Adhikar Bastabayan Forum' (a forum for implementation of law and rights) at Paslashpole in the town.
One of the victims also filed a case with Sadar Police Station against its officials and staffs for cheating Tk over 20 lakh in the name of awarding several people so-called 'Best Performance Award' for their contribution in different fields.
Locals along with the invitees who came to receive the 'award' scheduled to be distributed yesterday as per earlier announcement at a ceremony at Satkhira Zilla Parishad auditorium seized the office of the swindler NGO as they failed to find any of the officials and staffs of the organisation at the venue.
Maniruzzaman Manir, executive director of the NGO, and other staff managed to escape through the back doors of the office, police said.
Maniruzzaman Manir is a former leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami, sources said.
On August 18, local office of the Social Welfare Department suspended activities of the NGO.
Police rushed to the spot and managed to pacify the agitated people by assuring them to bring the culprits to book.
Mokhtarul Maulana of village Paikpara in Assassuni upazila filed the case with Sadar Police Station against executive director Maniruzzaman Manir and other staffs of the NGO, police said.
The cheats started activities of 'Ayeen and Adhikar Bastabayan Forum' hanging a signboard at a rented house at Palashpole in the town with permission from the local office of the Social Welfare Department in February, police quoted the victims and local people as saying.
They collected lakhs of taka from the people including UP chairmen, social workers, farmers, teachers, traders alluring them to be adjudged “Best Performance Awards' for their contribution in respective fields, sources said.
The cheats earlier invited them to receive the 'awards' on August 26 but they could not hold the ceremony as a piece of news was published against them.
Later they scheduled yesterday for distribution of the awards and again invited them to come to receive the awards.
Finding no officials or staff of the NGO at the venue they realised that they had been cheated and agitated people laid seize to the NGO office demanding arrest and punishment to the cheats.
Several of the victims including plaintiff Mokhtarul Maulana, Shawkat Ali of Palashpole in the town, Saleha Khatun of village Sreekalash in Assassuni upazila and others told this correspondent that the NGO officials and staffs collected Tk 20,000 to 30,000 from each to accord them the award.
Contacted, Sadar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Kader Beg said they are trying nab the culprits.
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