In Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, representatives of numerous environmental and forest-related institutions and organisations have called for the prompt apprehension and severe punishment of the individuals responsible for the death of a forest inspector who was struck by a dump truck while attempting to halt soil smuggling.
On Tuesday afternoon, a human chain in front of the Cox's Bazar Shahid Sarani forest department office made such a demand.
The illicit dump trucks operating in Cox's Bazar were to be stopped, according to the organised human chain.
There was a minute of silence at the start of the human chain, with roughly 500 forest workers present. According to the speakers, the Cox's Bazar organised gang persisted in its irresponsible mountain-cutting. The Beat policemen were methodically assassinated because they were frustrated with the string of operations against this syndicate. Prompt apprehension of the offender was required in order to demand exemplary punishment.
The Bazar South Forestry Officer for Cox stated this. North Forest Divisional Officer Sarwar Alam and Cox's Bazar Press Club General Secretary Anwar Hossain Sarkar. Speaking were Mujibul Islam, Deepak Sharma Dipu, President of the Cox's Bazar Forest and Environment Conservation Council, and other others.
A bunch of forest bandits were smuggling dirt in the Rajapalong Union of Ukhia Upazila's Harinmara area early on Sunday, March 31. The Forest Department officer from the Dochhari Bit stated after receiving the news. Sajjaduzzaman (30) visited the location with a few forest workers. The traffickers' dump truck at the moment smashed two riders who were on motorcycles with him. Sajjaduzzaman passed away instantly, while Muhammad Ali, a forest guard, was hurt.
The beat officer of the Dochhari forest beat in the Ukhia range of the Cox's Bazar South Forest Division was the late Md. Sajjaduzzaman (30). He is the son of Munshiganj district's Gajria upazila's Muhammad Shahjahan.
The incident injured 27-year-old forest guard Mohammad Ali, who is the son of Abul Magnoor from Jhimongkhali region in Hnila union of Teknaf upazila.
This Ukhia range officer incident. In the Ukhia police station, Shafiul Alam filed a lawsuit as the plaintiff against ten individuals.
The driver of the dumper truck and the son of Mohammad Kashem of Rajapalong Union of Ukhia Upazila's West Harinmara district are the accused in this case. The following people are related to Sultan Ahmed: Bappi (23), Chayed Alam alias Kana Chayed (40) of the same area and his son Md. Tarek (20), Helal Uddin (27) son of Nurul Alam Maizza of Tuturbil area of Rajapalang Union, Chayed Karim (35) son of the deceased Abdul Aziz of Harinmara area, Anwar Islam (35) son of Abdul Aziz of the same area, Shah Alam (35) son of Abdur Rahim, Md. Babul (50), son of Farid Alam alias Farid driver of the same area. Kamal Uddin Driver (39), son of Shah Alam from the Harinmara area, and Rubel (24).
Accused Number Five In this case, Chayed Karim, 35, has already been placed under custody. In addition, the dump truck has been seized.
The police effort to apprehend the remaining suspected parties in the case is still ongoing, according to Shamim Hossain, the OC of the Ukhia police station.
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