Sylhet Bureau :
Police have arrested three people, including Union Sramik Dal vice-president Delwar Hossain, in Sylhet’s Jaflong over a protest by stone traders and workers.
The Gowainghat police arrested them from Sylhet and Jaflong on Sunday night and Monday morning. The others arrested are Shahjahan Ahmed and Faruk Mia from Gowainghat upazila. The arrested are accused in the case filed in this incident. Gowainghat police said that Gowainghat police station sub-inspector Obaidullah filed a case on Sunday night on charges of illegally blocking and obstructing government employees in government work by blocking the convoy of two advisors of the interim government, Syeda Rizwana Hasan and Mohammad Fawzul Kabir Khan. In this case, Delwar and Shahjahan were arrested from Sylhet and Faruk Mia from Jaflong. Confirming the arrests, the plaintiff in the case and Gowainghat Police Station Sub-Inspector Obaidullah said that 3 people have been arrested in a case filed in connection with the protest that blocked the movement of the two advisors’ vehicles. Incidentally, on Saturday morning, Power and Energy Advisor Muhammad Faozul Kabir Khan and Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan faced protests and obstruction from stone traders and workers on their way back after visiting Jaflong, an ecologically critical area in Gowainghat Upazila of Sylhet. That afternoon, they gathered in the Jaflong Bazar area and blocked the advisors’ road, shouting slogans of ‘fake, fake’. The situation became even worse when some of these protesters lay down on the road. The video footage of the incident shows that the protest was led by Upazila Jubo Dal joint convener Zahid Khan, Union Chhatra Dal president Azir Uddin and some local sand and stone traders. After this incident, Gowainghat Upazila Jubo Dal joint convener Zahid Khan was expelled from the party that night and on Sunday, Chhatra Dal issued a show cause notice to Azir Uddin. Meanwhile, the police filed a case on Sunday night in this incident, naming 9 people and leaving the names of about 150 others unknown. The main accused in the case is Gowainghat Upazila Jubo Dal joint convener Zahid Khan, and the second accused is Union Chhatra Dal president Azir Uddin. Apart from this, seven more people have been named in the case. Gowainghat Police Station OC Sarkar Tofail Ahmed said that three people have been arrested after filing the case. A drive is underway to arrest the rest.
3 arrested in Sylhet over protest by blocking two advisors’ cars
