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Gun-toting AL men held in Gazipur
[Bangla Daily Star] Police have enjugged... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the two Awami League men who were seen brandishing firearms during Saturday's clash between the party's two factions in Sreepur of Gazipur. Two shotguns were recovered from their possessions. Abdul Baten, superintendent of police in Gazipur, said this at a press briefing at his office around 6:15pm yesterday. The arrestees -- Shajahan alias Kamrul, 40, and Masum Khan, 43 -- are supporters of upazila chairman candidate Iqbal Hossain Sabuj, also organising secretary of the Gazipur district AL. Police yesterday also detained 11 people for their alleged involvement in the clash. Amir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sreepur Police Station, said no case had been filed till filing of the report at 7:53pm. Two platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel had remained deployed at different spots in the upazila from 12:00noon to ward off further violence, Executive Magistrate Bijen Banarji said. On Saturday, at least 50 people were maimed in several festivities between the supporters of Sabuj and Abdul Jalil, member of the AL Sreepur upazila unit, centring on the upcoming upazila polls slated for March 15. Mostafizur Rahman Bulbul, general secretary of Sreepur upazila AL, said Jalil was picked up as the chairman candidate at the grassroots. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Azmat Ullah Khan, general secretary of the AL district unit, said Sobuj had been chosen as the party candidate by the central committee. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... a Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... leader along with two of his supporters was held with a firearm in Savar yesterday while he was engaged in a clash with workers of a business firm over jhut business (garment waste), our Savar correspondent reports. Sohel Parvez is the joint secretary of Jubo League central unit and a former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... Jahangirnagar University unit. On condition of anonymity, a high official of Santa Garment said Asa International, owned by Akbar Hosain Mridha, had been doing jhut business with his company at Dhaka Export Processing Zone for long. But Sohel and his men had been trying to get hold of the business for the last few months, he said. When workers of Asa were busy loading their trucks with jhut as usual, Sohel and his supporters attacked them, leaving five of the workers injured. On information, police rushed to the spot and held Sohel along with two others with a firearm. Rasel Sheikh, assistant superintendent of Savar police circle, said a general diary had been recorded following the incident. "The firearm has licence, but none can use it to threaten anyone," he said. Posted by: Fred 2014-03-10 |
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