Villagers beat 4 Savar police constables, vandalise firearm
Additional police had to be called in to rescue four constables who were beaten and confined while one of their firearms was vandalised by villagers in Savar's Mugdapara early yesterday, following which four persons, including an Awami League leader, were detained.
Among Md Razib, Md Rezaul, Mintu Miah and Md Billal Hosen, the latter has been admitted to Enam Medical College Hospital in critical condition, said police. Detainee Md Shohidullah Bepary is the ruling party's Vakurta union president.
Around 100 locals had attacked the law enforcers responding to information that drivers and helpers of two good-laden trucks plying the Dhaka-Savar road were being held hostage, claimed Savar Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Abdul Motaleb Miah.
He said a case would be filed.
However, some locals, requesting anonymity, said the four had gone there to extort Tk 5 lakh from some villagers threatening to implicate them in a case over the recent killing of two alleged robbers by a mob in a neighbouring village. Motaleb denied this.
Meanwhile, the wife of Minhaj Uddin Mollah, councillor of Savar municipality and a Jubo League leader, filed a case with the police station accusing Savar upazila Joint Secretary Nazrul Islam among 20 named and 100 unnamed.
At least 28 people were injured, 13 of them bullet-hit, while five shops and houses were vandalised in a clash between two factions of the ruling Awami League's youth front at Jamshing in Savar on Sunday evening.
Nazrul claimed he and his men retaliated after being attacked by Minhaj and his accomplices while returning from a programme.
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