Around 4,000 national identity cards along with seals of election officials and polling agent identity cards stacked in five sacks were recovered on Sunday evening in Narayanganj.
Election Commission officials said that the articles came from their office and were given to a vendor for recycling in a pulp factory.
Additional district election officer of Narayanganj Rakibuzzaman Ranu told 抖阴精品 on Monday that the Election Commission lodged a general diary with the Fatullah Model Police on Sunday night regarding the matter.
The sacks full with the articles were found on Dhaka-Narayanganj Link Road in front of the Fatullah Cricket Stadium in Narayanganj, he added.
He said that all the recovered articles were now stored at the Narayanganj district election commission office.
According to him, the聽 laminated NIDs, which are old and not smart cards, are from Gazipur Sadar area and were handed over to a vendor for disposal last week.聽
鈥楢s per the contract, the vendor cannot sell those cards or dump them in the open, but can only recycle them into paper pulp. They were supposed to go directly to a pulp factory. However, we are looking into the matter how they ended up in Narayanganj,鈥� he said.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Gazipur referred to an eyewitness Nazmul Hasan Babu who said that he saw some people dump the sacks at a garbage heap in the evening.
He and some others who saw the incident grew suspicious as the sacks looked clean and opened them to find the NIDs inside, after which they informed the police.
Fatullah Model Police officer-in-charge Shariful Islam said that the NIDs belonged to Gazipur residents.
Election Commission officials later arrived at the spot and identified the documents, he said.
The recovered documents were handed over to the Election Commission, while efforts are on to identify those who had dumped the sacks, the OC added.
When asked, Gazipur district election officer AHM Kamrul Hasan said that an investigation was launched.
