Audience baton charged for viewing 'obscene dances'
More than 50 people were injured as police resorted to baton charge on the audience at a cultural function at Tajpur Bazar under Osmaninagar Police Station on Saturday night.
Local leaders of Juba League and Chhatra League organised the cultural function at the ongoing Baruni Mela at Tajpur Bazar. Receiving the news of 'obscene' dances at the function, police reached the venue at around 10:00pm and swooped on the audience. The injured were given first aid at the upazila health complex.
Soon after the incident, about 20 local leaders of Juba League and Chhatra league went to the police station and locked in an altercation with the law enforcers. They then came out of the police station and blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Tajpur Bazar point.
They also took out a procession demanding immediate withdrawal of the officer-in-charge of Osmaninagar of Police Station.
About 500 vehicles remained stranded on both sides of the road for one and a half hours from 10:30pm, much to the sufferings of the passengers of long distance coach services. Traffic resumed on the highway at midnight after local AL leader and Tajpur UP Chairman Ataur Rahman and other leaders removed the barricade.
Jubo League and BCL leaders alleged that police foiled the function as they refused to give them (police) money. Denying the allegation, Officer-in Charge Nur Alam said police went into action as the organisers arranged obscene daces at the fair in the name of a cultural function.
Sajid Hossain, additional SP of Sylhet, visited the Osmaninagar Police Station and Tajpur Bazar after mid night on Wednesday.
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