Fifty-five activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir have been sued on charge
of attacking police in two separate incidents in the city on Thursday,
second day of the 48-hour Jamaat-enforced hartal.
Police filed a case with Kotwali police station accusing 15 identified
and 8-10 unidentified activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s student body
on Friday while another case was filed by police with the same police
station against five more named and 20 to 25 unnamed activists of the
organisation on the same day.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police Mohammad
Ayub said police filed the two cases against 55 Shibir men in
connection with attacking police in the city’s West Subidbazar and
Baluchar areas on Thursday during the Jamaat hartal, enforced
protesting the death sentence to its assistant secretary general Abdul
Quader Mollah.
Two policemen were injured in an attack by the Shibir men at West Subidbazar.
Shibir men also snatched a bullet-proof jacket and a helmet form
police during the incident.
In another incident, Shibir activists launched an attack on police at
Baluchar in the city during the shutdown. -UNB, Sylhet
