Plot on against campaigners?
Unidentified miscreants in a mystery attack on Friday night defaced the portrait of Sheikh Jamal and vandalised the guardroom of Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at the capital's Dhanmondi-8 playground.
The portrait at the entrance to the field was stained with black ink while window panes of the guardroom were vandalised around 10:40pm, Masud Karim, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station, told The Daily Star.
A banner was also found there which read, “Thanks to Engr Mubasshar, Iqbal bhai, Dana apa, Salma apa for protecting the playground from the clutches of illegal government and Sheikh family and opening it to the public.”
Police released green activist Sayed Ishtique Ahmed of Green Voice, who was detained from the playground while trying to bring down the banner around 10:30am yesterday, added the OC.
The club authorities filed a case against 35 unidentified people on Friday night in connection with the incident, mentioned the OC.
Meanwhile, protesting hanging of banners and festoons at the Dhanmondi-8 playground, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) yesterday complained that a vested group, that has no relation with the green activists' movement to save Dhanmondi playground from illegal occupation, has put up the banners and festoons there.
The organisation in a press release demanded immediate punishment of the vested group.
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, a limited company, has been illegally occupying the playground for the last few years.
The High Court in 2011 had ordered the then Dhaka City Corporation, police and public works ministry to open the field to public and remove all illegal structures from there.
On April 18 this year, the club sued three eminent green activists Mubasshar Hussain, Bapa Joint Secretary Iqbal Habib, architect Salma A Shafi and national award winner sports organiser Quamrunnahar Dana for entering into the playground.
However, on April 24, the Dhaka South City Corporation opened the playground to public.
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