BCL leader held for violence
Police yesterday morning arrested Dhanmondi Thana unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for beating up two employees of a CNG filling station at the capital's Paribagh and looting Tk 1 lakh from its cashbox on Thursday.
Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said they arrested Nazimuddin Babu from his Kathalbagan residence around 9:00am after Aminul Haq Chowdhury, one of the employees of Shahjalal Enterprise, filed the case on Friday night.
Police said Babu and his gang members beat up the employees and forced to shut the station following a quarrel between his wife and the employees when his wife violated serial of filling up gas for her car.
Police said Babu denied the allegation during preliminary interrogation.
Babu claimed that he had gone to the filling station to know about the incident between his wife and the employees.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association in a statement condemned the alleged attack by the BCL men and demanded their punishment.
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