Six leaders of banned Awami League and affiliates arrested in separate Dhaka drives
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested six leaders of the banned Awami League and its front and associate organisations in separate drives in the capital. They were arrested in drives in Uttara, Lalbagh, Sabujbagh and other areas on Wednesday and Thursday.
The arrestees are Md Shiblu (30), former vice-president of ward 24 of Lalbagh thana Chhatra League under Dhaka Metropolitan South; Yamin Ahmed Anil alias Anir (32), organising secretary of the same ward; Marsad Akter (58), president of the Kurigram district branch of the banned Mahila Jubo League; Sanjay Dutta (50), general secretary of Uttarkhan thana Krishak League; Md Abdur Razzak (38), joint general secretary of Jubo League ward 73; and Masudur Rahman Shipon, former Noakhali district Chhatra League president and district Jubo League joint convener.
Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of the DMP's media and public relations division, said the arrestees are leaders of the banned Awami League and its front and associate organisations, that there are cases against them at various police stations, and that the next legal proceedings against them are under way.
The DMP said Chhatra League leader Yamin Ahmed was arrested from the Lalbagh area of Old Dhaka on Thursday night. On the same day, former Noakhali district Chhatra League president and district Jubo League joint convener, and former Noakhali Zilla Parishad panel chairman, Masudur Rahman Shipon was also arrested in a drive in another area of the capital.
At around 1:30pm on Thursday, Marsad Akter alias Khuki was arrested in a raid on a house in Uttara Sector 5. She was an assistant hall secretary of the Eden Mohila College students' union and a vice-president of the Eden Mohila College branch of Chhatra League. It has initially been learnt that she was actively involved in the politics of the banned Awami League and its front and associate organisations.
At around 4pm the same day, a team of thana police arrested Krishak League leader Sanjay Dutta in a drive in the Rajlakshmi area of Uttara Sector 3. He is the general secretary of the Uttarkhan thana Krishak League under Dhaka Metropolitan North.
Md Shiblu was arrested in a drive in the Lalbagh thana area on Wednesday night. He is a former vice-president of ward 24 of Lalbagh thana of the banned Chhatra League under Dhaka Metropolitan South, and an accused in a case filed over allegations of trying to create an unstable situation in recent times and of vandalism and cocktail throwing in the Iraqi Math area under Lalbagh police station.
On the same day, the DMP's Special Response Unit (SRU) arrested Md Abdur Razzak, joint general secretary of Jubo League ward 73, in a drive at Baigdia in Sabujbagh.
SRU sources said Abdur Razzak faces a total of five cases at Jatrabari, Demra, Sabujbagh and Badda police stations. Of these, an anti-discrimination movement-related case filed at Jatrabari police station is under investigation, while his name appears in the charge sheets of the other four cases. The cases are under trial in court.
