Demanding renovation of local roads to prevent accidents, hundreds of students locked the office of the executive engineer of Roads and Highways department and confined him in his office for an hour yesterday. Later, police rescued the engineer dispersing the agitating students.
Locals and eye witnesses said the students of Jhenidah Government Keshab Chandra (KC) Degree College locked the office of the executive engineer Selim Azad Khan around 12pm. Some agitated students said the Roads and Highways department was not showing minimum interest to repair the roads at different places in the district. Students will go for tougher actions in near future if the roads are not repaired properly, they threathened. When contacted, Roads and Highways executive engineer Selim Azad Khan said he was not aware of the agitation.
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