Fifty-eight more trainee sub-inspectors were discharged from the Bangladesh Police Academy at Sardah in Rajshahi on Monday allegedly for breaching discipline.
The discharged trainee sub-inspectors were receiving basic training at the academy under the 40th outside cadet batch, officials said.
With the latest 58, the number of discharged trainee sub-inspectors of the batch since the August 5 fall of the Awami League regime has risen to 310.
A total of 801 trainee sub-inspectors began to receive a one-year basic training under the batch at the academy and these 310 of them were discharged before graduation.
鈥楾he 58 trainee sub-inspectors have been discharged from their ongoing training on Monday for breaching discipline,鈥� said Enamul Haque Sagor, additional inspector general for media and public relations at the police headquarters.
They were served notices on October 21 and October 24 to explain as to why they would not be withdrawn from the training allegedly for creating chaos during a session on October 16 evening, according to a number of show-cause notices.
The notices mentioned that the notice recipients鈥� conduct during the session was a 鈥榗lear violation of the academy鈥檚 order and discipline.鈥�
Earlier on October 21, a total of 252 trainee sub-inspectors under the batch were discharged allegedly for breaching discipline, only 10 days before their graduation ceremony scheduled to be held on October 31.
The decision to discharge the 252 trainee sub-inspectors came only four days after Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed at a press conference in Dhaka on October 17 demanded the cancellation of the appointment of over 800 sub-inspectors and 67 assistant superintendents of police, alleging that they were loyal to Awami League and that the AL regime had appointed them just before its fall.
Salahuddin had said that, among these appointed ones, 200 were from Gopalganj and 403 were members of 鈥榯errorist organisation鈥� Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, which was involved in the killing of students during the anti-discrimination student movement.
Two days after Salahuddin鈥檚 press conference, the authorities, citing 鈥榰navoidable reasons,鈥� postponed the graduation ceremony of the apprentice assistant police superintendents of the 40th Bangladesh Civil Service, hours before it was scheduled to be held at the police academy on October 20.
