OUR CORRESPONDENT, Dinajpur

The Joypurhat district administration has announced to reschedule a women’s football match, which was previously cancelled after being disrupted following vandalism of the tin fence surrounding the playing field.

The decision was conveyed on Friday after a meeting between an investigation committee, the organisers, and local religious leaders, said Anisur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Akkelpur Police Station.

Members of the investigation committee, accompanied by an army team, visited the playing field and spoke with local residents. Law and order in the area remained stable, he added.

Akkelpur upazila nirbahi officer Manzurul Alam, a member of the probe body, said that the incident resulted from a “misunderstanding”, as acknowledged by local religious leaders.

He assured that there were no longer any obstacles to women’s football being played on the field, adding that arrangements for the match would be made soon.

Some individuals involved in the vandalism were also present and attributed the incident to “miscommunication”.

Mostakim Hossain, a teacher of the local Bacha “A

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