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http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/07/d7070701085.htm   Nachole Probe Report Today Dishonest dealers, officials create fertiliser crisis     Anwar Ali, Rajshahi The probe team for Wednesday's Nachole riot yesterday said a few dishonest traders are taking advantage of the growing demand for fertiliser and doing illegal marketing allegedly with the help of administrative officials, creating artificial fertiliser crisis in the northern districts. The probe committee headed by Chapainawabganj Additional District Magistrate Mustafizur Rahman reportedly found a top upazila official responsible for the rampage and recommended his punishment. The committee is likely to submit its report today. The other committee members are Additional Superintendent of Police Sazzadur Rahman and Deputy Director of Agriculture Extension Department Asim Kumar Malakar. The probe body had collected hand-written description of the incident from some 50 persons including ferti...

http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/06/d70706020127.htm     Editorial Flaws in fertiliser distribution glaring Nachole incident rings with lessons to heed   The violent outbursts of farmers on the heels of an incident centring around collection of fertiliser quota slips from Nachole upazila office has brought to the fore the issue of chronic mismanagement in the distribution of the important input to the agriculturists. In the face of persistent demand for the input, the local administration had arranged to supply authorisation slips to them to collect the stuff from the dealers. As the slips were being distributed by the sub-assistant agriculture officer to the farmers standing in a queue of 3000 persons, the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) allegedly intervened objecting to the handing over of the slips under signature from the agricultural officer. The UNO went furious and slapped the officer concerned when he pleaded for the farmers to get a quota of ...

http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/06/d7070601085.htm     5,000 farmers sued for attack on govt offices at Nachole   Anwar Ali, from Nachole, C'nawabganj Nachole upazila administration yesterday filed a case against 5,000 unnamed farmers for attacking and damaging government properties on Wednesday. Emdadul Haq, office superintendent of the upazila parishad, filed the case with Nachole Police Station. Farmers in the area fearing arrest have been keeping off their homes. They are also avoiding fertiliser stores and the local agricultural office, locals said. Fewer than a hundred farmers were seen gathered on the office premises of the UNO (Upazila Nirbahi Officer) for fertiliser. Before the Wednesday's violence, thousands of farmers used to line up for fertiliser at the UNO's office every morning during the last several days, the locals added. The farmers demanded open sale of urea and they blamed Monjur Morshed, the UNO of Nachole, for Wednesday...

http://thedailystar.net/2007/07/05/d7070501118.htm       Fresh case against Nadim     Former BNP lawmaker Nadim Mostafa and 11 other of his thugs were sued in a fresh extortion case at Puthia police station of the district on (July 2 ) Monday.   Recording the case, police yesterday arrested 7 accused including former Puthia municipal administrator and local BNP president Abdul Latif Biswas.   Other arrested BNP adherents are – Mohsin, Gaus, Idris, Sohrab, Abul Kashem and Mohidul.   Other accused are – municipal BNP secretary Munsur Rahman, BNP adherents Joynal, Isa Khalipha and Hashem Ali.   Meanwhile, Nadim Mostafa, already accused in total 11 cases including four for helping and abetting JMB militants, is absconding since January. In a cheating case, he was jailed for 5 years and he was acquitted in a relief fund CI sheet misappropriation case.   Rofikul Islam of Paschimbhag village lodged the case and al...

Fertiliser hungry farmers ransack UNO office Aggrieved at the scanty supply of fertiliser, farmers vandalised the UNO office at Nachole, set fire to the furniture and documents and injured the UNO (inset) in Chapainawabganj yesterday. PHOTO: Focus Bangla   Fertiliser hungry farmers ransack UNO office Clashes erupt over improper distribution at Nachole; 10 including UNO injured Thousands of fertiliser deprived farmers of Nachole upazila in Chapainawabganj yesterday damaged the upazila parishad office and torched its furniture and documents in a desperate rage against the local authorities' mismanagement in distributing the essential agricultural input. Ten persons including Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Monjur Morshed, Upazila Agriculture Officer Abul Kalam Azad, Upazila Monitoring Officer of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Asaduzzman, and a farmer Abdul Latif were injured during the one-hour wildcat protest. The scene was almost a déjà vu to some o...

Trial of 3 JMB patrons: two witnesses quoted militants to have revealing their leaders     A Rajshahi trial court June 25 recorded depositions of two witnesses in the case for aiding and abetting the JMB militants against former BNP stalwarts Barrister Aminul Haq, Ruhul Kuddus Talukhdar Dulu and Nadim Mostafa.   The witnesses -- plaintiff Ayub Ali Pramanik, a victim of brutalities by Jama'atul Mujahidin, Bangladesh (JMB) militants at Bagmara and his neighbour Abbas Ali told the court that militants including Bangla Bhai mentioned the BNP lawmakers as their patrons during their operations.   They claimed, they saw Bangla Bhai, Jalil Amin, Murshid having talks and directions from the BNP bigwigs frequently over cell phones during torture and extortion of Ayub.   Ayub of Polashi village said, armed militants waylaid him near his home and started beating up on April 7 morning in 2004. They demanded Tk 1 lakh toll.   When de...

A Chapainawabganj trial court on June 20 sent former BNP lawmaker and villain of Kansat tragedy Shahjahan Mia and two other his cohorts to jail after they surrendered before it over an extortion case.   Two other accused in the extortion case, filed by one Panaullah on April 23 for extorting him of Tk 75,000, are – Aynal Haq and Shafikul Islam.   Tight security measurers were taken in and around the court sensing their surrender.   Shahjahn and his associates went to the court at around 11.30am and they were taken to jail after one hour.   The court directed the district jail authority to arrange Shahjahan's stay in jail in accordance with jail code when his lawyers appealed for his division.   The surrender occurred on the first day of beginning of the trial in the extortion case.   The district and sessions judge Hrishikesh Saha fixed the charge framing date as quickly as today, as trial of the case was included under the emer...