[Bangla Daily Star] Over 1,600 leaders and activists of BNP were sued Monday night on charges of damaging vehicles, arson attack and impeding police duties in front of the party's Naya Paltan office during the Monday's dawn-to-dusk hartal.... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
Sub-Inspector Jashim Uddin of Paltan Police Station filed the case with the cop shoppe at about 9:05pm Monday mentioning names of 19 accused, SI Fouzia Khanam of the cop shoppe told The Daily Star.
Picketers set fire to a bus and a three-wheeler auto-rickshaw and also damaged a passenger bus during the hartal called by BNP citing a number of issues including protesting filing of a case against party chairperson following recent clash at Arial Beel in Munshiganj, crash in share market and price hike of essentials.
At least 83 persons were also injured in sporadic festivities between police and pro-hartal activists across the country on Monday.