'Gunfight staged' to get loggers boat released : vimarsana.c

‘Gunfight staged’ to get loggers boat released
Forest officials claim firefight; police, locals say nothing of that sort happened
Forest department officials seized this boat of stolen logs in Chiringa area on the Karnaphuli river in Rangunia, Chattogram. They later claimed that a gunfight took place and the boat was taken. Locals and police say that was not the case. Photo: Collected
Three forest officials in Chattogram's Rangunia staged a fake gunfight allegedly to give back a boat, seized earlier with logs, to its owner in exchange for a bribe.
The Daily Star investigated the incident, which took place in Chiringa beat adjacent to the Karnaphuli river on January 3, and found it to be all cooked up.

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