Five workers hurt in 'cop beating'

Five workers of a transmitter manufacturing factory at Ashulia were injured as police allegedly charged baton on them on the Ashulia Police Station premises yesterday.

Police charged baton on around three hundred workers of Techno Venture Ltd in Sreepur as they marched to the police station to file a complaint against their factory owner as they had not been paid for the last four months, said Belal Hossen, a worker.

The injured five took first-aid.

But denying the allegation Mohshinul Kadir, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station, said they only drove the workers away, assuming that they might create chaos. Police are trying to contact the fctory authorities.

Contacted, ASM Firoz Prince, AGM of Techno Venture Ltd, said he neither knew about the arrears nor about the baton charging.