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Clinic, construction firm vandalised for toll refusal
[Bangla Daily Star] Local Jubo League activists yesterday vandalised a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts and a construction firm office and looted cash and cellphones at Mohammadpur on refusal of toll for the National Mourning Day programme.Locals said equipped with brickbats, bamboo sticks and iron rods at least 40 Jubo League activists in two groups ravaged Jiboner Alo Drug Rehabilitation Centre and Salam Enterprise at Dhaka Udyan in the area around 9:30am and looted Tk 16,600 and two cellphone sets. Md Rashedullah Tusher, director of the rehabilitation centre, said led by Saju, Mosharraf and Kamal the Jubo League activists came to the centre around 9:00am and demanded Tk 50,000 for the programme. Denied, they returned in half an hour and attacked the office. Three of his employees--Nazmul Islam, 28, Iqbal Hossain Swapan, 35, and Lat Miah, 42--sustained injuries as they tried to resist the men, he added. Muksedur Rahman, manager of the centre, said six months ago these men demanded Tk 50,000 toll but the DCC ward commissioner Abul Hasem Hasu settled the matter. Later on Tuesday night, the same men came back and demanded the amount for holding a feast on the occasion of Bangabandu's death anniversary, he added. The rehabilitation centre authorities alleged that despite repeated request police made delay in reaching the spot giving the attackers a chance to leave. Of the construction firm, an official seeking anonymity said the same gang demanded Tk 50,000 for the occasion. However, the local Awami League activists present at the scene told reporters that the aggressors did not belong to the ruling party. Police said no case was lodged in this connection. Posted by: Fred 2009-08-13 |
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