47 policemen injured in Nayapaltan clash

Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said that 47 policemen were injured in the clash with BNP leaders and activists in Nayapaltan of the capital. Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Imran Hossain Mollah of Media and Public Relations Department of DMP gave this information on Thursday (December 8) afternoon. It is reported that many of the injured policemen are undergoing treatment at Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital. Meanwhile, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, IGP and DMP Commissioner visited the Central Police Hospital to see the injured policemen.
Earlier, BNP leaders and activists clashed with the police in front of the BNP central office in Nayapaltan on Wednesday afternoon. One person was shot dead. Many others were injured.
After the clash, police also conducted raids in the BNP office and recovered many things viz rice, water, khichuri, cash Tk and explosives from the spot.
It is mentionable that police fired around 410 rounds of shotgun , 1003 rounds of rubber bullets, 173 gas guns and 6 sound of grenades in ‘self-defense’ in the area adjacent to BNP’s central office in Nayapaltan on Wednesday.
Sub-Inspector (SI) of Paltan Police Station Mizanur Rahman disclosed these facts in the statement of the case against BNP leaders and activists after yesterday’s operation there.
It is said in the statement that the police used these bullets to disperse the BNP activists from that area.
BNP wants to hold a Dhaka divisional rally in Nayapaltan on December 10. Although party was given permission by the Metropolitan Police to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, later, BNP was asked to hold a rally at Tongi Ijtema Ground or Purbachal as an alternative. But the party’s general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that BNP will consider if it gets an alternative venue for the rally inside Dhaka other than Suhrawardy Udyan.
Meanwhile, the police have taken a cautious position at almost all the entrances and important places of the capital centering the mass gathering of BNP.
On Thursday morning, it was seen on the spot that many police checkpoints been set up at the entrances of Dhaka including the Jatrabari, Uttara and Gabtoli areas. If someone is suspected, they are searched. Search is going on even after stopping the car.