Attack on UNO Pre-Planned: DIG Rangpur

Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Rangpur on Saturday said the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahinda Khanam was conducted in a pre-planned way over the previous enmity.

Earlier RAB said that the arrestees confessed in primary interrogation that they entered the UNO’s residence with a view to committing burglary and hit her in the face of resistance.

Later, the Bangladesh Administrative Services Association (BASA) claimed that the attack on UNO of Ghoraghat Upazila in Dinajpur was pre-planned and not an incident of attempted robbery.

Wahida Khanam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat (Dinajpur), was seriously injured in an attack by miscreants at her home on the Upazila Parishad premises on September 3.

Her father Omar Ali was also injured in the gruesome attack. They were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital.

Later, the UNO was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force MI-171SH helicopter.

She was admitted to the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Dhaka.