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Chitagong Correspondent

Detectives and the people of the secret services are learnt to have sniffed political maneuverings behind the violence at Chitagong University campus on Wednesday last

Some of the detectives claimed that they had received confirm information about the political instigation for destabilizing the congenial academic atmosphere in the name of student protest

The secret service people are currently working to figure out the sources of money and the designers of the action plan. They reportedly have become sure of involvement of outsiders at the campus fury.

According to the investigators, a good number of students from two public colleges - Chitagong College and Haji Mohammad Mohsin College - strong hold of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami, reportedly have materialized the centrally engineered plot of violence.

Top officials of the Rapid Action Batalion (RAB) and the police believed that the university students had not solely sponsored the violence especially during the state of emergency.

The investigators said that many of the wounded youths went to seek medication at Chitagong Medical College Hospital had no atachment with Chitagong University. "They were outsiders," the source said.

Sources hinted that a number of teachers of Chitagong University went into hiding after the hunt for the mentors of campus violence was launched couple of days ago and five teachers of two public universities were taken into custody for questioning.

The security people will soon start questioning some of the outsiders wounded in the campus violence on August 22. "We hope to detect the root of the trouble and its sponsors soon," a senior detective commented preferring anonymity.

Meanwhile, police recorded a number of rioting cases accusing 1500 university students and outsiders of the violence.

Adulterated buter oil

trader jailed

A mobile court recently raided an apartment and seized nearly 200 kilograms of adulterated buter oil from Khatiberhat area under Chandgaon police station.

Authorized officer of Chitagong Port Authority (CPA) and Magistrate of Class-I Mohammad Munir Chowdhury led the court The court found a huge store of adulterated buter oil at the residence of Mohammad Sekandar, an alleged trader of the adulterated buter oil.

Laboratory examinations revealed that the buter oil had been nothing but a clever blending of low-quality palm oil, vegetable oil and flavor chemical. The buter oil would be extremely harmful for the consumers.

The court realized Taka 50,000 in cash from the owner of the adulterated buter oil as penalty and ordered him to serve rigorous imprisonment for two months. [The End]

Lead: Shamsuddin joins CSSTEAP training Chitagong Correspondent Shamsuddin Ahmed, a Deputy Director of Bangladesh Meteorological Department here in the port city, left Chitagong recently for joining an international training course in India.

He is scheduled to undergo an advance course on "Application of space technology for disaster management and flood risk reduction." Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP) is hosting the course.

The month-long course will take place at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA) at Dehra Dun.

A scholar of Physics department of Chitagong University Shamsuddin Ahmed was conferred Post Graduation Diploma in meteorology and oceanography from the University of Philippines.

Apart from taking up foundation course at the Government Meteorological Training Institute in Dhaka, he also joined several international seminars and workshops in Thailand and Japan.

CCH seizes goods imported on false declaration

Officials here at Chitagong Customs House (CCH) yesterday foiled a wity bid of clearing steel products worth more than Taka 15 million reportedly brought upon false declaration.

The CCH officials seized the consignment after physical examination and asked the importer to comply the rules of penal tax on the total consignment

Informed sources said that a private steel recycling plant - Jiri Subedar Steel Mills at Bara Kumira - imported the consignment from Canada. A Mexican flag vessel MV Ex-e-Makalo brought the consignment to Chitagong maritime port

The company in connivance with the exporter prepared two export documents stating the materials as 'recyclable steel scrap for making steel bar'.

Commissioner of Customs (Import) Lutfur Rahman after examining papers asked his men to carry out physical examination of the materials. The officials at this stage detected finished steel products inside the containers worth not less than Taka 15 millions. [The End]

CCC&I proposes

monitoring board to

arrest price hike

President of Chitagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCC&I) Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Zabed yesterday placed a set of proposals before the interim government including formation of a 'price monitoring board' for making essentials affordable to consumers during holy month of Ramadan.

He suggested slashing the borrowing rate of interest to single digit, engaging the BDR-men in importing essentials and distribution of essentials all over the country.

The CCC&I President placed a 19-point proposal at a meeting of the merchants for easing essential supply to the markets and arresting the price hike. He hoped that implementation of his proposals would help people to well combat the situation.

Senior Vice President of the CCC&I MA Latif said that price hike of essentials had not only become a common phenomenon in Bangladesh but also a global trend.

"So it will not be wise if the businessmen are lonely blamed for the price hike," he added. He sought coordinated efforts from all to tackle the prevailing crisis.