37 teenagers and youths detained in Munshiganj during preparations for banned Chhatra League programme on Dhaleshwari bank

Police have detained 37 suspected teenagers and youths in Munshiganj while they were preparing to hold a programme of the banned Chhatra League on the bank of the Dhaleshwari River.

They were detained from the riverbank near Mollachar in the town on Friday (13 November) evening.

Police sources said police received secret information about a plan to hold a programme of the activities-banned Chhatra League by gathering on a cargo vessel anchored in the Dhaleshwari River.

Acting on the information, members of the law enforcement agencies took positions at different points along the riverbank. Several people who arrived in the river in a group by trawler were detained at that time. Later, local leaders and activists of Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal detained several more and handed them over to police.

Munshiganj Sadar police station officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Taslim Uddin said a programme of the banned Awami League had previously been held at the same place, and they had information that a similar programme was being organised there again.

The OC added that a total of 37 people were detained in the incident, and verification regarding the detained persons is under way.