Dhaka, Feb. 20 -- Six trainee assistant superintendents of police from the 40th Bangladesh Civil Service batch have been removed, one of whom came first in the police cadre.

Their removal was announced in a notice from the Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday.

It said that they were removed from their jobs in accordance with Section 6 (2) a of the Bangladesh Civil Service Recruitment Rules, 1981.

That section states that the government can terminate recruits in the case of direct recruitment.

Those removed are Kazi Faizul Karim, Ashraf Uzzaman, Manas Kirtaniya, Shambhu Roy, Sohel Rahman and Sanjib Deb.

Among them, Faizul came first in the police cadre in the 40th BCS. He was a student of the Department of Electronics and Communicatio...