Our Correspondent . Munshiganj | Published: 21:47, Sep 22,2022 | Updated: 09:51, Sep 23,2022
Critically injured activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, youth front of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Mohammad Shaon Hossain, 20, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday evening a day after he was injured, among others, in police firing in a clash in Munshiganj.
‘Shaon died at the hospital at about 8:30pm,’DMCH police outpost in-charge Bachchu Miah told New Age.
After the post mortem, Shaon’s body would be handed over to the family, he said.
Of the injured, three people, hit by birdshots on the head, face and eye, were transferred to the DMCH on Wednesday in critical conditions, the police officer said.
Meanwhile, two cases have been filed in connection with the Wednesday clash between BNP activists and police in Munshiganj, which left more than 100 BNP leaders and activists injured.
One case was filed by the police on Thursday, accusing 313 named people, including district BNP member secretary Kamruzzaman Ratan, and 1200 unnamed activists.
The other case was filed by a local Awami League leader against 52 named people on Wednesday night, including city BNP unit convener Eradat Hossain Manu Ahmed, and 200 unnamed others.
Confirming the matter, Munshiganj additional superintendent of police Suman Dev said that police sub-inspector Mohiuddin on Thursday filed the case on charges of attacking police, attempting to snatch police arms and creating obstacles to government duty.
He said that local AL leader Abdul Malek filed the other case on Wednesday night on charges of vandalising his shops and setting his motor bike afire.
The police officer also said that the police had already arrested 24 BNP activists in the cases.
At least 100 people, including several police personnel, were injured as police and BNP activists clashed at Muktarpur of Munshiganj on Wednesday afternoon.
The clash broke out in the Old Ferryghat area of Mukrarpur at about 3:30pm when police barred the opposition activists from holding a prescheduled rally there.
Those injured critically during the clash included Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal activists Tarek, Jahangir Hasan and Shaon, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, who succumbed to his injuries on Thursday at the DMCH.
‘My brother died under treatment at the ICU of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He was a Juba Dal activist,’ Shaon’s brother Sohan told New Age.
The BNP in a release said that Shaon’s namaj-e-janaza would be held in front of its central office at Naya Paltan in the capital city on Friday.
Besides, in a press conference at the central office, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday said that the ruling Awami League had ruined the country’s democracy.
The democratic institutions of the state are in a retreat as a result of the incumbent autocracy while a new chapter is being added to the country’s history, said Rizvi, adding that the judiciary, administration, national parliament and Election Commission are all working for the Awami League.
Stating that there is no freedom of expression in the country, the BNP leader said that violent attacks on the programmes of opposition continued due to the absence of democratic rule.
‘We saw another example of the Awami democracy yesterday [Wednesday], in the police brutality in Munshiganj. The police and some people in plain clothes, chanting the Joy Bangla slogan, were shooting like rain at the BNP rally,’ he said.
Rizvi said that after the party programme at Muktarpur in Munshiganj, the police and Awami League activists were attacking houses and businesses of BNP leaders.
‘A group of 15-20 Awami League armed activists and three policemen under the leadership of Masud, Namusa and Tofazzal have set fire to an industrial establishment and the house of Munshiganj district BNP convener Abdul Hay’s nephew Nazim Uddin. Nazim’s yarn factory was gutted, causing an estimated loss of Taka 2 crore,’ Rizvi said.
The police and AL people filed dozens of cases against thousands of named and unnamed BNP leaders and activists in various parts of the country as the BNP has boosted its political programmes since August 22 after the government increased the prices of fuels.
Sign up to exclusive daily email
Man stabbed dead by ‘nephew’ in Sylhet
Man’s sliced body parts found in Buriganaga
Indian media report warrants no response: foreign ministry
‘Robber’ killed in Kushtia ‘gunfight’
Rice prices up by 30pc in one year
Youths urge govt to stop fossil fuel use
Garment worker found dead in Ctg
8 Bangladesh, Nepal mountaineers set to summit Dogari Himal
Noakhali schoolgirl killed after rape, house tutor among 3 held
Rajshahi youth in search of work ‘tortured’ to death by BSF
Editor: Nurul Kabir , Published by the Chairman, Editorial Board ASM Shahidullah Khan on behalf of Media New Age Ltd. Hamid Plaza (4th floor), 300/5/A/1, Bir Uttam CR Datta Road, Hatirpool, Dhaka-1205. PABX: +8802-9632245-48. Fax: +8802-9632250, E-mail: [email protected]
Sign up to exclusive daily email
© 2022 Media New Age Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Developed By HTG Solution Ltd.