Nearly 1000 BNP-Jamaat men held across country
Staff Reporter :
The police have arrested nearly thousand leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from different districts during the dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country on Sunday.
They were allegedly involved in violence, vandalism and sabotage during the grand rally of BNP in Dhaka on Saturday and the hartal.
In Rangpur, at least 17 BNP men, including city unit convener Samsujjaman Samu, member secretary Mahfuz-un-Nabi, and district unit joint convener Fazle Rabbi, have been detained from the party’s district office.
Abu Maruf Hossain, deputy commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RMP), said they detained the BNP men in the morning when they were preparing to hold demonstrations and carry out sabotage.
In Dinajpur, the police detained 38 loyalists of BNP and Jamaat from the district. Among the detainees is district BNP President Mofajjal Hossain Dulal.
Shah Iftekhar Ahmed, superintendent of the district police, said they detained Dulal from the Collectorate School area around 9:30 am on Sunday.
Some 27 of the other detentions have been reported from Birampur, Nawabganj, Ghoraghat, and Hakimpur upazilas.
Subrata Kumer Sarker, officer-in-charge of Birampur Police Station, said they nabbed 11 BNP activists and a Jamaat member from different areas of the Birampur town. They have been shown arrested in sabotage cases and will be sent to jail through a court.
In pirojpur, at least 41 activists of BNP and Jamaat have been detained from different upazilas of Pirojpur. According to sources, 20 detentions have been reported from Sadar upazila, while four from Nazirpur, four from Indurkani, five from Nesarabad, two from Kawkhali, one from Bhandaria, and five reported from Mathbaria upazila.
Sheikh Mustafizur Rahman, additional superintendent of district police, said the detainees were involved in sabotage activities, while district BNP leader Sardar Kamruzzaman alleged the police are implicating their activists in previous false cases.
In Noakhali, the police held a total of 84 BNP men from different upazilas last night. Mustafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of district police’s Special Branch (SB), confirmed their detentions.
However, there was no untoward incident in the district during hartal on Sunday.
In Rajshahi, a total of 127 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies have been detained on Saturday night, on allegation of plotting sabotage during the hartal. Later, they were shown arrested.
Sanatan Chakrabarty, additional superintendent of district police, said they nabbed 57 BNP and Jamaat men from the district while holding meetings to carry out sabotage during the hartal on Sunday.
