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Break-in at Railway HQ

56 rooms ransacked in Dhaka, documents taken away from Ctg office

Staff Correspondent
A group of unknown criminals broke into Railway Bhaban in the capital Sunday night and ransacked 56 rooms while another group took documents from the Eastern Zone Office of Bangladesh Railway in Chittagong.
Government officials and different law enforcement and intelligence agency personnel suspect that the criminals went into the offices to steal important documents.
Echoing their views, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said, "Certain staffs of these buildings might have committed the crime in association with outsiders.n
He said, "The criminals might have done this to damage the image of the government as well as to prove that law and order situation in the country is not under the government 's control."
He said, "Even though I am not sure, it may be that the criminals were assigned to take files to hide evidence of corruption."
Bangladesh Railway suspended seven of its employees for failure and negligence in discharging their duties in Dhaka
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office. The suspended staffs are sub-inspector Anwar Hossain Dewan, Habildar Sayedul Alam, guards Monju Miah, Shamlm Ahmed, Shamsul Alam, Mokammel Huq and Monjur Miah.
The authorities formed a four-member committee to probe the Railway Bhaban incident. Habib Ahmed, joint director of Bangladesh Railway, was made chief of the probe committee which was asked to submit its report within three days.
An official handout says that another three-member probe committee was formed headed by Joint Secretary' of Bangladesh Railway Nasrin Akhter to probe the incident. This committee is supposed to submit its report within two workingdays.
To probe the mysterious theft incidents in Chittagong, the authorities formed another three-member committee headed by Mohammad Omar Faruq, assistant transport officer of Bangladesh Railway. The committee was asked to submit the report itnimediatqly., Other members of the committee are Assistant Commercial Officer Snehashis Das Gupta and Assistant Commandant Abdur Rob.
According to sources in the Dhaka office, criminals broke the locks of 56 room-doors between the first and sixth floor of the building and left the rooms upside down. They could not say whether important files and documents are missing.
Bangladesh Railway officials so far detected that Tk 86,219, a laptop and three cellphones are missing.
Belaet Hossain, director general (DG) of Bangladesh Railway, said the incidents might have taken place sometime between 9:00pm on Sunday and 8:00am yesterday.
He said his personal secretary
Sardar Sahadat went to his office around 8:00am yesterday and found the rooms ransacked. Later other official rushed to the office and found the 56 rooms burgled.
The communications minister, communications secretary and DG of Bangladesh Railway visited die spot.
A Criminal Investigation Department (CID) official wishing not to be named said perhaps a group of 10-12 thieves committed the crime.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Rezaul Karim of Shahbagh Police Station said they seized an iron rod from the spot and it was apparently used for break-ingthe locks.
Following the incident members of different intelligence agencies visited the spot including a 16-member CID team that collected fingerprints and other evidence.
Our staff correspondent in Chittagong reports: Unidentified criminals took old documents and a few control charts (registers) from the first floor office room of Masudul Arefin, divisional transport officer (DTO), sometime between late Sunday night and early yesterday.
Deputy Director (Public Relations) Shafiuddin Ahmed said the thieves took only some old documents and control charts of "closed matters" and nothing valuable were stolen.
"The documents neither had any relevance to financial matters nor those contained any financial information," he told The Daily Star citing preliminary investigation findings.
He said the thieves might have entered the room breaking the windowpane since the door lock was found untouched.
He said some of the papers and a sheet of timetable were recovered yesterday morning from the nearby transport office.