Khulna, Satkhira Districts
Three held with provocative March 12 posters, leaflets
Police arrested a man along with 12,000 provocative posters and leaflets in the city on Monday night.
The arrestee is Md Shafiqullah, 35, proprietor of Eagle Offset Press at Shamsur Rahman Road under Khulna Sadar police station, said police.
The posters and leaflets having photos of Jamaat leaders Nizami, Ghulam Azam and Sayedee were being printed at the printing press ahead of Dhaka March 12 grand rally of BNP-led four-party alliance.
Those were being printed on behalf of Satkhira district unit of Jamaat. Following the incident, the printing press has been sealed, said Kamruzzaman, officer in-charge of the police station.
Jamaat and Shibir activists were trying to create chaos in the city in the name of the rally, said the OC.
That is why almost all residential hotels, private hostels, some dormitories of academic institutions and key installations under five police stations of the city have been put under round-the-clock vigilance of the intelligence agencies.
Besides, special check posts have been set up at different vulnerable points in the city, added Kamruzzaman.
The printing press was raided following confessional statement of Islami Chhatra Shibir activist Abdullah AL Mamun, 23, a student of Daulatpur Government BL University College of the city.
On Sunday night, police arrested him along with Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad, 50, from Satkhira-Khulna Road area, reports our Satkhira correspondent.
Abul Kalam is son of Kawsar Ali of Madhya Katia in Satkhira town and Mamun is son of Ayub Ali of village Rahamatpur in Sadar upazila.
Quoting local people police said, following a tip-off, a team of Sadar police arrested them while they were distributing provocative leaflets and pasting posters at Satkhira Sadar Hospital intersection in the town at about 9:30pm.
Police also recovered 15,000 leaflets and 10,000 posters from their possession. Police produced them before the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court on Monday after a case was filed with Sadar PS.
The court sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers, court sources said.
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