Six held over attack on Patgram UNO

Six businessmen were arrested in a case filed in connection with the attack on Lalmonirhat's Patgram Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Executive Magistrate of a mobile court Ram Krishna Barman during a drive on April 7.

Police arrested the six -- Bulbul (38), Habibul Islam (40), Miraz Hossain (64), Azgar Ali (42), Rubel Hossain (34) and Nurnabi Islam (28) -- from Nabinagar and Jomgram areas last night, our Lalmonirhat correspondent reported quoting police.

All of them are accused in the case filed with Patgram Police Station by Office Secretary of the UNO's office, Swapan Kumar, on charge of attacking the UNO, vandalising his vehicle and preventing him from discharging government duties, Officer-in-Charge of the police station Sumon Kumar said. 

The mobile court had been conducting the drive as local traders kept their shops open after 6:00pm, violating instruction issued by the government in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.