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Overdue Promotion

DCC engr threatens boss with arms

Staff Correspondent
An aggrieved superintendent engineer (SE) of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) on Sunday threatened the chief engineer with a pistol during a negotiation for promotion, protesting taking army officers on deputation.
On receiving a formal complaint from the chief engineer (CE) Brigadier General Md Abdul Quadir, DCC Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka by evening the same day suspended Md Farukh Aziz, in-charge of SE and president of DCC Officers' Association.
The incident occurred at the Nagar Bhaban at around 1130am, stated the complaint
The CE's staff officer filed a general diary with Shahbagh Police Station in this connection on Sunday.
Duty Officer Assistant SubInspector Nazrul Islam said that a sub-inspector had been tasked with the investigation and he would initiate the prosecution with the metropolitan magistrate if the incident turns out to be of grave nature.
Farukh refuted the allegation saying, “There was no altercation with the CE. He rather agreed to resolve the long overdue promotion in the DCC engineering department within a week"
"Nothing like posing threat to the CE took place,” he said, “After we had finished the discussion with the CE, we went to the Chief Executive Officer alongwithhim.”
The CE also said that he would not go ahead for an engineer from army engineering corps to fill the position of additional chief engineer, said Farukh.
Farukh said that he along with around 50 other engineers went to the CE's room to negotiate the demand for promotion and express their discontent at the move to bring another officer from army engineering corps to fill the post of additional chief engineer.
The position of additional chief engineer has been lying vacant since January.
Brigadier Quadir told The Daily Star over phone, “Farukh threatened me over cellphone on Saturday night and he brandished a gun at me the following morning."
According to highly placed sources, Quadir agreed to pursue that Abdus Salam, senior most among the superintendent engineers as per confirmed service, would be promoted to
additional chief engineer.
But Farukh, who is yet to be promoted to superintendent engineer, opposed the idea.
Another SE in-charge, who was present with Farukh at the CE's office, requesting anonymity, said that although Farukh carried his licensed pistol during the incident, he did not brandish iL
“Our negotiation with the CE ended amicably.”
Despite attempts over phone, neither DCC Chief Executive Officer Md Nurul Haq nor the mayor could be contacted.