The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Police yesterday recovered 29 important Home Ministry files from a staff of the ministry at the Secretariat gate and arrested her in connection with the heist.

The arrested was identified as Aziran Nesa, cleaner of the Home Ministry.

Police said Aziran was returning home from the office at 10:45am when the security police at Gate No 3 being suspicious of her movement wanted to search her handbag, but she refused. Then the security police apprehended her and recovered the important files from her. Police said that she stole the files from the store of the Ministry. The Assistant Commissioner Sultan Alam told the New Nation that she stole 29 files from Division 1 of the Home Ministry. The files of the Chittagong Division of the year 1998 to 1999 belonged to the convicts of detention cases.

Aziran Nesa told reporter she did not steal the files, "I thought these were rejected papers. I took it for selling these to paper collectors for money to treat my sick child."

Source said a one-member investigation team was formed to probe into the cause of the theft and submit its report within a short time.

The Security Inspector of Home Ministry Abdur Rahman filed a case with Shahbag Police Station.

Security police handed over Aziran to the Shahbag police.