Jubo League goes on rampage in Sylhet city
After an hour of vandalism by Jubo League activists and alleged demands made by high-ups of the ruling party, Sylhet city police yesterday accepted an undertaking to release three arrestees, including the brother of a Jubo League leader.
The Jubo League men vandalised 15 vehicles including auto-rickshaws and trucks and four shops in Ambarkhana area and set old tires on fire barricading Airport Road for an hour till 10:30pm on Friday till police dispersed them.
Yamin Arafat Khan, younger brother of Sylhet city Jubo League Convener Alam Khan Mukti; Ujjol Baksh, a sub-assistant engineer of Bangladesh Education Engineering Department; and an auto-rickshaw driver were arrested on Friday around 5:30pm.
Police had stopped the auto-rickshaw they were on at Salutikor on Airport Road and found eight bottles of liquor, informed an additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police on condition of anonymity.
Sometime later around 100 Jubo League men arrived at Airport Police Station and demanded their release. When police denied entertaining their demand, they moved to Ambarkhana, some three kilometres away, and went on the rampage. The three were released yesterday around 1:00pm after the high-ups called for their release, added the ADC. It is still unclear who had signed the undertaking.
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