UP chairman jailed for digging pond illegally

RAJSHAHI, Jan 20 (UNB): A mobile court sentenced a union parishad chairman to seven-day imprisonment for digging a pond in a piece of cultivable land in Tiorkuri Beel of Durgapur upazila on Saturday evening.

The convicted is Riazul Islam, chairman of Deluabari Union Parishad.

A mobile court led by Executive Magistrate and Assistant Commissioner (land) Samar Kumar Paul conducted the drive in the area and sentenced him, said the magistrate.

Earlier, the authorities concerned warned the UP chairman to stop digging the pond, but he did not refrain from the work and violated the law, he added.