BCB apologises after safety personnel assault journalist

Jun 16, 2023 at 1:36 PM
BCB apologises after safety personnel assault journalist

The Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] has apologised after their safety personnel assaulted a journalist in the course of the third day of the one-off Test between Bangladesh and Afghanistan in Dhaka. BCB director Ismail Haider Mallick got here to the press field inside the hour of the incident, and warranted that the folks concerned can be withdrawn from responsibility for not less than one yr.

Mallick additional added that the BCB continues to be within the means of figuring out all of the people who assaulted Tasfiq Shahriar, who works for the Cricfrenzy web site. He vowed that the BCB would look additional into bettering the general behaviour of the safety workers.

The bother began when Shahriar was ready for certainly one of his colleagues to convey his accreditation card in order that he may enter the press field in the course of the third day’s play. One of the safety personnel instructed him to face throughout the road. Journalists normally wait close to Gate No.1 of the Shere Bangla National Stadium, and Shahriar moved away from that spot when requested to.

Suddenly one of many safety workers swooped onto Shahriar and attacked him. He was speaking to a different journalist on the time. Shahriar has claimed that three to 5 individuals attacked him, and left him with bruises on his nostril and throat.

This just isn’t the primary time that BCB safety guards have had run-ins with journalists. Major incidents happened in 2006, 2015 and 2016.There have additionally been a number of unreported incidents involving safety guards and journalists on the board headquarters in Mirpur.