Nasirnagar attack
Another AL leader held
Prime accused put on 5-day remand
UNB
Detectives arrested another local Awami League leader from Chapartala area of Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria yesterday evening in connection with the attack on the Hindu community, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Suruj Ali, president of Chapartala union unit of Awami League.
Officer-in-charge of Detective Branch of Brahmanbaria police Mofiz Uddin Bhuiyan said a DB team arrested Suruj around 7:30pm. He said Suruj was identified from video footages of the attacks.
Meanwhile, a court in Brahmanbaria yesterday placed Atikur Rahman Akhi, Haripur Union Parishad chairman and also the prime accused in a case filed over the attack on Hindu community in Nasirnagar upazila, on a 5-day remand.
Sorafuddin Ahmmed, senior judicial magistrate, passed the order after police produced him before the court seeking a seven-day remand, said court inspector Mahbubur Rahman. Detectives on Thursday arrested the UP chairman from Bhatara in the capital in connection with the attack.
On October 30, some unruly people demolished 15 Hindu temples and vandalised over 100 houses in the upazila following a Facebook post that allegedly hurt the religious sentiment of the Muslim community. Later, two cases were filed against 2,400 unidentified people in this connection.
However, Akhi went into hiding after the incident.
