Attack on Hindus: Nasirnagar AL leader arrested

Police yesterday arrested ruling Awami League leader Abdul Ahad over the October 30 attack on the Hindus in Nasirnagar upazila.

Ahad is a former chairman of Nasirnagar Sadar Union and ex-joint organising secretary of the upazila AL.

Md Abdul Karim, assistant superintendent of Brahmanbaria (Nasirnagar Sadar circle) police, said the arrestee was under surveillance for a long time and was arrested from his house in the upazila yesterday afternoon.

On October 30, unruly mobs and zealots vandalised many Hindu houses and temples in five villages of the upazila over a Facebook post.

Police lodged six cases in connection with the attack, Karim told The Daily Star.

Law enforcers have so far arrested 103 people in the cases.