The capital market regulator Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), which has started promising changes, suddenly detained three commissioners including the chairman for four hours on March 5. In addition, some officers committed undesirable incidents such as swearing and behaving indecently. The commissioners said that they were pressured to resign. They also observed an unprecedented all-out work stoppage.

On March 6, BSEC Chairman’s gunman Md. Ashiqur Rahman filed a case against 16 people at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in this incident. In the meantime, one director has been arrested. Another executive director has resigned.

After the BSEC scandal, the officers and employees withdrew their work stoppage and returned to their respective jobs. They returned to work after the BSEC Officers Welfare Association suspended their work stoppage. They have been working since that day. When the officials went to the desks, they found that the employees were doing their normal work. A BSEC official said, there is no point in looking back at what happened in the past.

Sources said that the officials kept BSEC Chairman Khandaker Rashed Maqsood and three commissioners in their board room for four hours and humiliated them in various ways. During this time, they turned off the entire BSEC’s CCTV cameras. Even the AC and lights in the board room were turned off. As a result, the entire commission was plunged into darkness. At the same time, more than a hundred officials and employees entered the board room and abused the chairman and commissioners in foul language. They repeatedly turned on the AC and demanded that they speak, but the officials did not listen. The disorderly officials threw sound boxes at the chairman and three commissioners, put dirt inside tissues and threw stones. They even threw stones with eggs. The above information was conveyed to the commission chairman Khandaker Rashed Maqsood during a recent conversation with three commissioners.