Police have detained an Awami League leader of Narail on charge of knocking down an old two-storied school building.
Nazmul Hasan Togor, an Awami League leader of Itna union, was held for demolishing Itna Secondary Girls School building and taking away 28 doors and 31 windows from the site.
Police detained Nazmul, also the president of the school's management committee, from Lohagara upazila parishad premises on Thursday night, a day after he pulled down the structure built on a government land.
Officer-in-Charge of Lohagara police station Sheikh Lutfar Rahman said Nazmul was detained for illegally flattening the school building.
Land Assistant Officer of the union, Md Haider Ali, attempted to resist the building's demolition on the day of the incident and also submitted a complaint to the upazila nirbahi officer, Md Moktar Hossain.
But Nazmul claimed that the school was not built on a government land, and that the local lawmaker as well as the upazila nirbahi officer had asked to demolish the “risky” building during their visits to the educational institution in the past.
“The structure was knocked down according to what the two officials said,” he said.
But the upazila nirbahi officer said the building was not confiscated by the condemnation committee.
Narail Deputy Commissioner Abdur Gaffar Khan said an investigation into the incident had been ordered and legal actions would be taken afterward.