Detectives have arrested six leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) over the November 14 clash between BNP men and police at Nayapaltan. The arrestees were identified as HK Hossain Ali, president candidate of Dhaka ward-11 unit JCD; Shohagh Bhuiyan, general secretary of Shahjahanpur unit JCD; Abbas Ali, JCD central committee member; Ashraful Islam Robin, general secretary of Dhaka North city unit JCD; Zakir Hossain, joint secretary of Jagannath University unit JCD; and Mahbubul Alam, vice-president of Titumir College unit JCD.

A team of Detective Branch of police arrested them from the city's Sutrapur area on Monday, said Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Monirul Islam yesterday.

Of the arrestees, Hossain Ali took off his shirt and jumped on the police vehicle and Shohag vandalised the police vehicle after taking off his shirt, said Monirul, also Additional Commissioner of DMP, while speaking at a press conference at the DMP Media Centre.