Brawl with ADC: Mobile court jails doctor for 3 months

A mobile court has sentenced a former acting civil surgeon of Laxmipur to three months in prison after a brawl between him and the district's additional deputy commissioner (general).

Witnesses and officials said ADC Sheikh Murshidul Islam and former acting civil surgeon Salahuddin Sharif engaged in a noisy argument at Kakoli Kindergarten School in the town, where they went to pick up their son and grandson yesterday morning.

The argument started over why one of them did not let the other pass through the narrow entrance of the school first. They engaged in a scuffle at some point in the course of the incident.

A mobile court conducted by Laxmipur sadar Executive Magistrate Nuruzzaman at deputy commissioner's office later sentenced Salahuddin and police sent him to jail.

Physicians, upset over the verdict, met the Deputy Commissioner Homaira Begum later in the morning. The DC assured them of legal assistance.

Administration officials did not comment on the incident.

Ashfaqur Rahman, president of Bangladesh Medical Association in the district, said they would appeal against the verdict.