1544 held in 36 cases filed over violence on Oct 28
Staff Reporter :
As many as 36 cases have been filed against 1,544 people centering the clash and violence during the grand rallies of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in Dhaka on 28 October.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media centre informed this to the media in an official message on Monday afternoon.
Most of the top leaders of the main opposition party BNP have been made accused in the cases filed centering the incidents of 28 October.
Party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been sent to jail after showing him arrested in a case filed at Ramna Police Station on charge of vandalising the residence of the Chief Justice.
He was made accused in four cases including the one filed on charge of killing a police constable.
The other accused are BNP leader Mirza Abbas, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Abdul Awal Mintoo, Barkat Ullah Bulu, Joynul Abedin Faruq, Joynal Abedin, Ahmed Azam Khan, Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Shamsuzzaman, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Shahjahan Omar and Mahbub Uddin Khokon.
The cases have been filed on charges of killing and blasting crude explosive with the intention of killing police members, creating obstacles to government duties, vandalising the residence of the Chief Justice, arson, and snatching firearms of the police.
Most of the cases were filed by police members while a few were filed by the victims.
Besides, a total of 1,727 people were arrested from eight zones of Dhaka Metropolitan Police for incidents related to violence and law and order situation in nine days from 21 October, said DMP.
Most of the arrests, 696 people, were made on the grand rally day of BNP on 28 October.
As many as 2,542 people were arrested on the previous day of the rally and another 256 were arrested on 29 October.
BNP alleged police arrested people en masse to dissuade the people from joining the rally by spreading fear.
Despite the attempts, when a huge number of people turned up at the rally, the government then adopted the strategy of foiling the rally.
