Police raid Sangram, Sonar Bangla offices
Police raided offices of the daily Sangram and weekly Sonar Bangla, the Jaamat-owned newspapers, in the capital's Maghbazar yesterday.
A joint team of Ramna police and Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted the raid for around two hours from 1:00pm.
Witnesses said the law enforcers searched every rooms of the offices located in the same building in which the central office of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is also situated.
The Jamaat leaders and activists often sit in the offices for carrying out their party activities.
Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of Ramna division, told The Daily Star that they conducted the raid on information that there were a number of fugitive Jamaat leaders and activists were hiding in the building.
"We had also information that the Jamaat men were projecting plans to commit subversive and criminal activities on the eve of the mass procession of 18-party alliance led by BNP and Jamaat scheduled to be held tomorrow [Monday]," the DC said.
Asked, the DC said no one was arrested during the raids as the Jamaat men fled away.
Shafiqur Rahman Taj, acting secretary general of Jamaat, in a written statement, condemned and protested the police raids at Sangram and Sonar Bangla offices.
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