Motorcade Attack: Cops sue 65 activists of Jubo Dal, JCD
Police have filed a case against 65 leaders and activists of Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal on charges of setting fire to two empty buses in Feni's Mohipal just after the BNP chief's car crossed the area on Tuesday afternoon.
Sub-inspector Nurul Haque of Feni Sadar Model Police Station filed the case with the police station yesterday afternoon. Twenty-nine of the accused, including Nayeem Ullah Chowdhury, president of Feni Chhatra Dal, were named.
Miscreants hurled two petrol bombs at the buses parked near a filling station on Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
The incident happened when BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was returning to Dhaka following her visit to the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.
Immediately after the incident, police detained six people, including the buses' drivers and their helpers, a local leader of Sramik Dal and a Chhatra Dal activist.
Feni Sadar Model Police Station OC Md Rashed Khan Chowdhury said the six detainees were shown arrested in the case.
Police yesterday filed another case with the same police station, blaming feud between two former BNP lawmakers.
SEPARATE PRESS CONFERENCES
Feni Awami League and BNP have been blaming each other for the Tuesday's incident.
At a press conference at a local restaurant yesterday, local MP Nizam Uddin Hazari denied that anyone from his party or the party's associate bodies was involved.
He also said the attack on Khaleda Zia's motorcade was an "outcome of the internal feud of BNP".
Replying to reporters' queries, Nizam Hazari said whoever involved in the attack should be punished.
At another press conference in the district town, the local BNP held the AL responsible for the attack on journalists' vehicles on October 28 and the incident on Tuesday.
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