Savar AL human chain foiled
BCL men released after arrest
Police yesterday foiled a human chain formed by a faction of Savar unit Awami League (AL) near Jatiya Press Club in the city demanding punishment to Savar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC).
Meanwhile, Shahbagh Police Station OC Rezaul Karim said the detained BCL men, including Manjurul Alam Rajib, a former BCL central committee vice president, were released in the evening, after around eight hours of arrest.
Earlier, the Shahbagh OC said they picked some five to six BCL men from the human chain to avert any untoward incident, as there had an internal feud between two groups of local AL leaders and activists in Savar.
“One group tried to form a human chain while another group tried to foil it,” OC Rezaul said.
Some AL and BCL leaders and activists led by former Lawmaker Ashrafuddin Khan Imu and Savar upazila unit AL president Hasina Dowla Savar formed a human chain in the morning demanding punishment to Savar OC Mahbubur Rahman for allegedly ransacking photos of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the residence of Rajib on February 6.
Contacted, the Savar OC said the allegation of ransacking the photos of Bangabandhu and the prime minister is totally false.
Savar police also filed a case against 167 AL and BCL men, including Rajib for attacking the Police Station on February 6.
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