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Jewellers agitate in Sylhet

9 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Jewellery shop owners in the city yesterday protested arrest of a leading jewellery shop owner and police harassment. They also blocked the city's Bandarbazar road for an hour causing serious traffic jam in the area. However, city mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran later went to the area and requested the agitators to withdraw the blockade assuring them of looking into the incident. The protesters alleged that Golapganj police arrested Shabbir Ahmed, owner of Wahid Jewellers yesterday morning as a suspect in a robbery. Besides, they often harass the jewellery shop owners and traders to extort money from them, they said.