Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded a judicial inquiry into what it described as barbaric attack on Wahida Khanam, UpazilaNirbahi Officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat, Dinajpur, and her father.
In a statement on Sunday, the civil society organisation called upon the government to ensure exemplary punishment to those involved in the “heinous attack”.
The TIB also protested strongly against the propaganda, being carried out by a vested group, that the barbaric attack on the UNO at Ghoraghat was merely a 'theft' or 'isolated incident'.
“The way such a shocking and gruesome incident is being sponsored as a 'mere theft' and an 'isolated incident' based on the initial 'confession' of a suspect is very disappointing and suspicious," TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman said.
Referring to media reports based on local sources, he observed that such an attack might have taken place due to certain inflexible stand of the Ghoraghat UNO against corruption and immorality,on many issues related to khas land, illegal sand extraction and brick kiln.
In this context, the TIB called on the government to take effective and visible steps to address insecurity and mistrust risk posed by such attacks on top officials of the local administration.
On Thursday, a group of miscreants seriously injured Wahida Khanam in an attack at her official residence on the Upazila Parishad premises.
She is now undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka.
