A case has been filed against a Union Parishad chairman and a UP member for cutting trees planted under a social forestry programme in Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur.
Harunur Rashid, forest officer of Nazirpur, filed the case on Saturday night with Nazirpur police station against Md Oaliullah, chairman of No 3 Deolbari Dobra Union Parishad, and Abdus Salam Majhi, a member of Ward No 6 of the union parishad.
In the name of calling tender, Oaliullah and Abdus Salam cut more than one trees worth around Tk20 lakhs, which were planted on the roadside between Gaokhali Primary School to Mohanpur Bazar, said Kabir Khan, who is a stakeholder of the social forestry programme.
As per rule, the programme’s stakeholders are supposed to get 55% share of the dividend, 25% will go to the UP, 10% to the government’s exchequer, and 10 percent will be invested for planting trees again, he said.
But Oaliullah and Abdus Salam did not deposited money to the accounts of the stakeholders after selling those trees, he added.
Forest Officer Hurunur Rashid said the stakeholders lodged a complaint against the duo on October 30.
The case was filed as the complaint was found to be true in an investigation, he said.