HC asks govt to stop river encroachment in 7 days

The High Court on Thursday asked the authorities to visit the Burganga and Turag rivers and stop all kinds of encroachment and dirt-filling in the rivers at Mirpur and Hazaribagh. The High Court bench of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui also asked the Dhaka metropolitan police commissioner, Dhaka deputy commissioner, director general of the environment department and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority chairman to submit a report in this regard to the Supreme Court registrar in seven days after the visit.