BNP men lay siege to cop station, try to snatch leaders
UNB, Sirajganj
Local BNP adherents yesterday laid a siege to Kamarkhand Police Station for several hours in an apparent bid to snatch away five of its leaders and activists after police held them on charge of plundering six houses of rival group at a Sirajganj village. Led by Badiuzzaman Ferdous, president of Sirajganj BNP, and ruling BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader Babu, about 100 armed BNP supporters gheraoed the police station from noon and tried to free the arrested BNP and JCD activists from police custody, police said. Deputy commissioner, Sirajganj and local superintendent of police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. Additional police forces were deployed around the police station to avert any untoward incident, they added. Police produced the arrestees before a local court in the evening under heavy protection. The court sent them to jail, sources said. Earlier, police nabbed BNP activists Lutfor Rahman and Abdus Salam and JCD leaders Masud Rana, Aminul Islam Babu and Al Mamun for their alleged link to the arson attack on six houses in Jatibari hours after some miscreants murdered upazila JCD president Khorshed Alam Huda on March 11, they added. Blaming a rival group for the killing, local BNP activists torched the houses forcing the residents to live under open sky, locals said.
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