All to free a youth arrested in phensidyl case
Phensidyl traders and their accomplices hassle a Bangladesh Rifles member from Rajabari check post in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi district 'protesting' arrest of a man engaged in the contraband business, right, the unruly men vandalise the check post.Photo: STAR
A mob led by Awami League men besieged Godagari police station and assaulted policemen yesterday protesting 'harassment' of a youth in a phensidyl case. The incident occurred in the morning after BDR men of Kharchaka outpost caught Bablu, a youth of Kharijagati village, with 20 bottles of Indian Phensidyl and handed him over to the police at 1:00am yesterday. Hearing the news, locals led by AL men, including district Krishak League Organising Secretary Helal Uddin, besieged Godagari police station demanding release of Bablu. According to police and witnesses, as police refused to release Bablu, Helaluddin and other AL men assaulted three cops, including Sub-Inspector Abdur Razzak. Cops encircled Helal Uddin and three other AL men at the police station, beat them up and put them into hajat. Protesting the incident, the agitating locals blocked Chapainawabganj-Dhaka road at Rajabari for three hours and damaged four vehicles. An hour later, the mob drove out all BDR personnel, including Lance Nayek Siraj and Havildar Probhash, from Rajabari check post and damaged its furniture. They withdrew the road blockade following release of the four AL men and an assurance given by additional SP Abdul Kuddus Chowdhury that Bablu would be freed soon. The additional SP told this correspondent that SI Abdur Razzak was closed to the police lines for his 'excess' against the AL men. Villagers alleged that BDR men took Bablu to their camp from a tea-stall, beat him up and later implicated him in a phensidyl case out of a previous grudge. One and a half months ago, Bablu and some other villagers caught Shafikul Islam, a BDR constable of the camp, with a woman while they were engaged in an indecent act, the villagers said.
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