Police on Monday went through the waste of the office of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia to ‘check whether there was any explosive substance in it.’
Witnessed said a group of policemen led by Gulshan police station’s officer-in-charge Rafiqul Islam searched the waste at around 1:45pm when Dhaka North City Corporation’s cleaners took out a sack full of waste out of the office and dumped it on a nearby footpath.
Police also prepared a list of the types of wastes that came out.
The waste included empty water bottles, abandoned plastic crockery, exhausted can of anti-mosquito repellent, broken chair, wastepaper, broken flower pots, dead flower plants and other things.
A member of police said they searched the waste to see whether there were any explosive substances in there as the High Court earlier issued an order to search the office, after a petitioner sought to know whether there were explosives at the Khaleda’s office.
Another member of police, however, said they wanted to check whether any message was being passed through the effluents to others outside the office.
OC Rafiqul refused to comment on the action.
Khaleda Zia, also the leader of the BNP-led alliance which is enforcing nonstop countrywide transport blockade, coupled with intermittent general strikes, since January 5, has been staying in the office since January 3 as the authorities barred her from coming out of the office on January 4.
Source: New Age
