JCD leader gives Tk 3,000 for setting bus on fire: CTTC

Staff Reporter :
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested a Chhatra Dal leader and his accomplice on charge of setting fire a bus in the capital’s Mugda amid the ongoing blockade of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and their allies.

The arrestees have been identified as Amir Hossain Rocky, 25, Joint Convener of Sutrapur Thana Chhatra Dal, and Shakib alias Arohan, 21, were arrested in a raid in Keraniganj on Sunday, said CTTC Chief and DMP Additional Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday noon.

CTTC Chief Asaduzzaman said Rocky gave Tk 3,000 taka for setting each bus on fire.

Later, Rocky announced a double bonus for setting buses on fire in the second phase of the blockade.

According to the CTTC, on 1 November, some people boarded a passenger bus of Midline Transport and set fire it on the Atish Dipankar Road in the capital’s Mugda.

The police caught and arrested a man named Al Amin with the help of the public but others escaped.
Earlier, the bus owner Muhammad Dulal Hossain filed a case over the incident with Mugda police station.