Dhaka Education Board secretary injured by stray police bullet

Shahedul Khabir Chowdhury, secretary of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, was accidentally shot by an on duty constable in front of Westin hotel in Dhaka on Thursday night. The secretary was shot when he was standing outside the hotel after a meeting with education cadre officers at the hotel. Few policemen were on duty there. Shahedul, also the secretary general of BCS General Education Association (BCSGEA), was whisked to United Hospital immediately. “Suddenly, a bullet from one of their guns hit me,” he told journalists. “Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member probe body, led by Assistant Commissioner Rezaul Karim, to look into the incident," Gulshan police station officer-in-charge Abu Bakar Siddique told the Dhaka Tribune. “Constable Imran, who is a member of Public Order Management unit of DMP, was suspended over the matter,” the OC added. Sources in United Hospital said that the secretary was out of danger.