14,000 cubic feet of stone seized in Jaintapur

Sylhet Bureau :

14,000 cubic feet of stone have been seized in a joint operation by the upazila administration and task force in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet.

On Saturday (August 23) at 11 am, Upazila Executive Officer (UNO) George Mitra Chakma came to Banglabazar area No. 4 of the upazila for an operation.

Assistant Commissioner (Land) Farzana Akhter Laboni, Jaintapur Model Police Station and BGB members of Sreepur BOP under the responsibility of Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB) were also present at the time.

During the operation, the task force seized stones from the Rangpani River in a stored state in several crushers in the Bangla Bazar area No. 4. Later, 2,000 cubic feet of stones were seized from that place.

Later, another 12,000 cubic feet of stones stored near the Sreepur tea garden were seized.

Upazila Executive Officer George Mitra Chakma, who led the operation in this regard, said that the work of restoring a total of 11,500 cubic feet of stones, including the 9,500 cubic feet of stones seized last week in the Bangla Bazar area No. 4 and 2,000 cubic feet today, has already begun.