Chandpur, Sept 14 (UNB) - Police arrested a local Jubo Dal leader on charges of cutting down more than one hundred trees owned by the government besides Chandpur-Faridganj-Raipur regional highway in Faridganj upazila on Friday afternoon.
The arrestee Md Nasiruddin alias Cut Nasir, joint secretary of upazila unit of Jubo Dal, was later sent to jail after being produced before a local court in a case filed with Faridganj Police Station for illegally cutting roadside trees of the Forest Department, said Rajiv Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Acting Forest Officer Md Kamrul Hasan of Faridganj Forest Department filed the case accusing Md Nasiruddin and his associate Mizanur Rahman for allegedly cutting down the trees on both sides of the regional highway and looting those, the OC added.
Earlier on August 4, Mizanur Rahman was arrested, he said.