Rickshaw puller shot, injured by League man
A Jubo League leader in the capital early yesterday allegedly shot and injured a rickshaw puller who just wanted him to pay for the trip he made on the rickshaw.
Police arrested the Jubo League man, Yusuf Sardar Sohel alias Sundori Sohel, from a hotel in Banani area around 2:00pm and recovered a gun and 22 bullets.
Sohel, joint convener of Banani Thana Jubo League, was drunk at the time of the incident, according to police.
Rickshaw puller Abdul Kabir, 35, took treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He filed a case with Banani Police Station in this connection.
Kabir told reporters that he carried two passengers from Gulshan to Banani-2 around midnight. As the rickshaw reached the destination, the passengers got down and just began to walk away.
“Kabir demanded Tk 40. But Sohel, instead of paying the fare, shot him in the left thigh,” said Md Wahiduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station.
“He [Sohel] was drunk,” the OC said, adding that they were looking for the other passenger.
Sohel claimed that he has licence for his pistol, the official added. Police will produce him before a Dhaka court today.
In 2012, Sohel was implicated in another criminal case.
Three Jubo League men, including Zakir Hossain, the then general secretary of Jubo League's DCC North ward-20 unit, were injured as miscreants opened fire on them inside their office in the capital's Mohakhali on July 1, 2012.
Zakir was an aspirant for general secretary post of Banani Thana Jubo League and had been involved in a dispute with Sohel, another aspirant for the post.
A report on the incident was published in The Daily Star on July 2, 2012.
Zakir filed a case against Sohel and some other people in this connection. However, police did not press charges against Sohel, a local Jubo League leader said requesting anonymity.
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