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No breakthrough in railway break-in

Probes not over, but secretary says no file lost

Staff Correspondent
Before proper probes into the break-ins of Bangladesh Railway offices in Dhaka and Chittagong, the communication secretary yesterday said no important files and documents were stolen, adding confusion to the mysterious incident early Monday.
Initially it was suspected that die criminals broke into die offices to steal documents or records related to railway's land properties, lease of land or documents of different projects to hide monetary corruption.
Communication Secretary Iqbal Mahmud told reporters in a rushed briefing at the secretariat, "No important documents went missing from Dhaka Railway Bhaban according to the information we have got so far."
Terming the incident mysterious, unfortunate and shameful, he said the burglars stoleTk92,719, alaptop and four cellphones
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from the Dhaka office and , some pJd/jaietabUicbarU and . doc #rf!'eh<*£'''fT om ' the' Chittagong dffirt. The.documents were not "tnat significant", he said.
Mahmud said separate executive and police investigations are underway and he expects the mystery to be unearthed.
The government formed three investigation committees after the break in but members of the probe committees. Criminal Investigation Department (QD) and detective agency sources said they are yet to findanythingconoete.
CID chief Additional Inspector General Md Javed Patwari told The Daily Star, "We have collected finger prints and other evidence. Our investigation is on and we are hopeful that our intelligence members would be successful in unearthing the mystery."
Habib Ahmed, joint director general (engineering) of Bangladesh Railway and head of one of the probe committees, said, "Our investigation is going
on. Hopefully, we will find some-thingout"
•--He said, 'They have no relation with the communication secretary's press briefing and the tecre -law's statement was on initial finding not die findings of this probe committee."
The railway authorities had suspended seven security officials and guards for negligence in duties after the incident as officials and employees on reaching their offices Monday morning found their office rooms turned upsidedown.
Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim said they have quizzed security guards of Railway Bhaban.
"Some officials of the Railway Bhaban are invoked in the incident. .. I believe. Hopefully we will unearth the mystery," hesaid.
A three-member probe committee was also formed headed by Joint Secretary of Bangladesh Railway Nasrin Akhter to probe the Railway Bhaban break-in.
To probe the mysterious break-
in in Chittagong, the authorities formed another three-member ■ co m p? i 11 e e.vh.e>ad*fr d b y Mohammad Omarfahiq assis-tarft’transpor^offlcer of Bangladesh Railway. The committee was asked to submit the report immediately. Other members of the committee are Assistant Commercial Officer Snehashis Das Gupta and Assistant CommandantAbdurRob.
A member of this probe committee suspects that the criminals might have been looking for documents related to Bangladesh Railway's land properties or documents oflease of land, which were in the building, but they mistakenly stole documents oflitile value.
"Such land- and lease-related documents, files and records are kept at the adjacent DEO (Divisional Estate Office) in the same building," Faruk said.
Most of the documents stolen were four to 20 years old and their conditions were so bad that the criminals probably wouldnotbe able to sell them to paper recyclers, Faruk said.