BPJA Building
Row over hanging billboard: One arrested
Family members of a freedom fighter locked into a scuffle with photojournalists yesterday over hanging a billboard on the rooftop of a building at Paltan in the capital.
Police arrested late freedom fighter KM Alauddin's son Pranta, a medical student, following filing of a case with Paltan Police Station in this regard.
Pranta, along with his mother Firoza Haque Bithi and relatives, tried to hang a billboard on the rooftop of a building where his mother owns two floors while Bangladesh Photojournalists Association (BPJA) owns the ground floor, said police.
However, BPJA President Shafi Uddin Ahmed Bitu immediately informed the matter to police who stopped hanging of the billboard in the evening.
Later, Bitu filed a case accusing several people, including Pranta, for beating them up, snatching cameras and damaging their motorbikes, police said. The police were deployed in front of the building to avoid further untoward incident.
Contacted, Bitu said their office was located on the ground floor of the building for more than 27 years while Firoza said they had been living on the two floors since 2006.
Bitu said they tried to stop them from hanging the billboard as the building was old one and might not bear the load of the billboard.
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