Three AL men arrested for assaulting narcotics official, cop
Police on Saturday night arrested Shyamnagar Jubo League president and two activists of the unit for allegedly assaulting an official of narcotics control department and a sub-inspector of local police station.
The arrestees are upazila Juba League President Abdul Kader and activists Abdul Jalil and Shahid. Two separate cases--one by Inspector Mosharraf Hossain of Satkhira office of narcotics control department and the other by Sub-inspector (SI) Zafar--were filed with Shyamnagar Police Station against the three Jubo League men.
Police quoted local people as saying that Kader and his two associates assaulted Inspector Mosharraf near Banshipur bus stand in Shyamanagar upazila while he was returning to Satkhira after investigating a case at Fultala Dhankhali village in the upazila at around 6:00pm.
Later, Inspector Mosharraf went to Shyamnagar Police Station and filed the case against Kader, Jalil and Shahid. Hearing the news of filing a case against them by Inspector Mosharraf, the Jubo League leader and activists came to the police station at around 8:00pm and rebuked the officer-in- charge (OC) for recording the case against them.
At one stage, they assaulted duty officer SI Zafar and damaged some furniture of the police station. Police arrested the Jubo League men on the spot and yesterday produced them in a court that sent them to jail.
Satkhira district Jubo League General Secretary Asaduzzaman Babu condemned the incident. He said the party will take action against the persons involved.
Contacted, officer-in-charge (OC) Fazlur Rahman of Shyamnagar Police Station said they will press charges against the three after investigation.
Meanwhile, Shyamnagar upazila Awami League (AL), Jubo League and Chhatra League yesterday took out a procession and held a rally at the upazila headquarters protesting arrest of Juba League leader Kader and activists Jalil and Shahid on Saturday night.
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