40 accused, all BCL men
A day after the killing of a businessman in Comilla town, a case was filed with Kotwali Police Station yesterday, accusing 40 activists of the Chhatra League.
Ahsan Habib Sumu, 38, a sand trader, was shot dead during a clash between two factions of the BCL unit of Govt Victoria College on Thursday.
Habibus Sayerin, elder brother of Sumu, filed the case accusing 15 named activists and 25 unnamed activists of BCL, said Khorshed Alam, officer-in-charge of the police station.
The accused include Saleh Ahmed Russell, former organising secretary of the college unit of BCL, activists Shahin, Ripon, Shakil alias Chhota Shakil, Zakir, Khokan and Shah Poran.
Supporters of BCL leaders Pritom Chakrabarty and Saleh engaged in the clash over establishing supremacy on the campus around 1:30pm on Thursday, reports UNB.
The clash soon spilled over into nearby Munsefbari area. At one stage, the supporters of Saleh attacked Pritom.
Witnessing the incident from a neighbouring house, Sumu, also a nephew of local lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar, rushed to the spot to save Pritom.
But the attackers shot Sumu in the back and pelted him with bricks, leaving him critically injured in the head.
He was taken to Comilla Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
Soon after the filing of the case, police conducted raids at Kabi Nazrul Hall of the college and Baludham and Telikona areas in the city.
The law enforcers, however, could not arrest any of the accused till filing of this report last night, reports a correspondent in Comilla.
Feroz Hossain, a sub-inspector of the police station, said police had collected call records of the accused.
He also said they were putting in their best efforts to arrest the culprits.
Meanwhile, the condition of Pritom, who was being treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, has improved, family sources said.
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