RMG workers leader Mishu, 5 others held
Police yesterday arrested four garment workers and two of their leaders on charge of holding rally without prior permission at Chowrasta intersection of the district.
The arrestees were identified as Garment Sramik Oikkya Parishad President Mosrefa Mishu, Farid Uddin, Mohammad Mansur, Mohammad Bayezid Hossain, Mohammad Sultan and Jago Bangladesh Garment Sramik Federation President Bharan-e-Sultan Bahar.
Gazipur Sadar Police picked them from the Chowrasta intersection at around 5:30pm, while several associations of garment workers arranged a rally in protest of filing cases against four thousand garment workers for demanding Tk 5,000 as minimum wage.
Officer-in-charge Abdur Rashid of Sadar Police Station said, they arrested Mishu and five others for holding rally without prior permission and instigating the workers to create anarchism at the garment factories.
However, Mishu refused the allegation saying they had arranged the rally after taking permission from the police authority.
Police arrested them few minutes before the closing stages of the peaceful protest rally, Mishu added.
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