A CASE was filed with the Kurigram sadar police station against a physician on charge of keeping surgical dressing inside the abdomen of a woman after the caesarean. The law enforcers filed the case on Friday after investigation into the incident, the police said.
   Physicians at Kurigram General Hospital, however, removed surgical dressing from inside the abdomen of the woman about two months after the operation.
   Hospital sources said that Momena, 22, wife of Sekendar Ali, of Tapurchar under sadar upazila, was admitted to Kurigram Mother and Childcare Centre where she delivered a baby boy on April 30. Dr Nasrin Begum conducted the operation.
   Momena was released from the centre although she complained of abdominal pain, her family said. As the women felt acute pain, later she was admitted to General Hospital on June 11.
   Physicians at the hospital referred her to Popular Diagnostic Centre for tests and some substances were detected in the abdomen. As her condition deteriorated, Momena was admitted to General Hospital again on Monday and Dr Amit Kumar Bose, a gynaecologist, removed gauzes from inside the abdomen on Tuesday.

THREE persons have been killed in Cox’s Bazar and Comilla, the police said on Saturday.
   In Cox’s Bazar, a man strangled his elder brother over a land dispute at Middal Poohkhali in the Cox’s Bazar district headquarters early Saturday.
   The deceased was Nurul Huda, 45. The police arrested the younger bother, Syed Noor.
   The police and neighbours said Noor strangled his brother over a land dispute. The police sent the body to hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.
   A case was filed with the police.
   In Comilla, the police found two decomposed bodies at Muradnagar and Debidwar upazila early Saturday.
   The police found the body of a young man at Bariwrachara under Muradnagar. The deceased was Jashimuddin, 22, of Pipiria.
   Most parts of the body were eaten by wild animals, when the police found it in a forest. The police suspected that he might have been killed two or three days ago.
   Earlier an elderly man was found dead in a pond at Debidwar. The deceased was Abdul Malek, 70, of the village. The body had marks of injuries in the head, the police said.
   His family said Abdul Malek went out of his house at Friday night and had remained missing since then. Separate cases were recorded with the police.

The afforestation programme in Jaflong Green Park in Goainghat upazila began here Friday under supervision of the joint forces.
   Jaflong Foundation and Forest Department have jointly taken up the afforestation programme.
   The joint forces in separate drives from February 1 to 3 reclaimed about 100 hectares of grabbed land. Sources said a vast area of Jaflong had been under the clutches of land grabbers for the last two decades.
   The land grabbers occupied government khas land and reserved forestland and
   extracted stone by cutting
   small hills polluting the environment of Jaflong, one of the most attractive tourist spots of the country.
   They also established crushing mills on the forestland without permission.
   Under the afforestation programme, various types of trees, including hybrid Akash-moni, are being planted in the park to maintain ecological balance.

THE joint forces on Friday arrested a former chairman of Kuchiamora union parishad under Magura sadar upazila on charge of taking bribe.
   The arrested is Nazrul Islam Montu.
   Army sources said a team of the joint forces arrested Montu at his house of Kuchiamora on allegation that he had taken Tk 2.1 lakh from one Rahmat Ullah of Chandpur a few days ago.
   Montu took the money from Rahmar Ullah in Dhaka on the promise that he would help him (Rahmat Ullah) to get a job of commissioned officer in the Army.
   After interrogation, the joint forces handed Montu over to the police. The police on Saturday produced him before a court and it ordered to send him in jail.