A committee has been formed after a tourist’s hair was forcefully cut at Guliakhali Sea Beach in Sitakunda upazila.
This supposedly occurred in the presence of Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Syed Mahbubul Alam Haque, reported UNB.
The one-member committee was formed on Thursday, as per the instructions of Chittagong Deputy Commissioner Md Elias Hossain, with Additional Deputy Commissioner AZM Sharif Hossain heading it.
Sitakunda Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Milton Roy said: “The committee was asked to submit its report within three days.”
The incident went viral on Facebook soon after the incident took place on Tuesday afternoon.
Locals reported that some people were engaged in “unsocial activities” on the sea beach, and on this information, a team led by Haque seized seven tents and detained a youth from the site.
Later, Haque ordered his people to cut the youth’s hair as punishment.
Shajahan Saleh, a bystander, took a photo of the incident and posted it on Facebook, claiming that the magistrate had ordered the haircut.
The photo evoked angry responses from people who said the incident is an example of abuse of power.
Magistrate Haque claimed he did not order the haircut, instead stating that some locals cut off the young man’s hair claiming he had misbehaved with them.