5,000 sued in Jessore
Police on Sunday night filed two separate cases against 30 people and some 5,000 unidentified others in connection with the attack on the motorcade of Jatiya Sangsad Whip Sheikh Abdul Wahab in Jessore the day before.
Touhidul Islam, a sub-inspector of Monirampur Police Station, filed a case against 5,000 unidentified people bringing allegation of creating chaos, and attacking police and preventing them from discharging their duties, said AKM Azmal Huda, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Sub-inspector of Abhaynagar Police Station Ferdaus Wahid filed the other case against at least another 5000 people mentioning names of 30.
The accused were charged with attacking the whip, the upazila chairman, officials of Water Development Board and police, vandalising vehicles and hampering government activities.
Hearing the news, women from Balidha, Panchakori, Nehalpur and Kalibari villages brought out an agitation rally protesting the filing of the two cases. All the male inhabitants have fled those villages.
Meanwhile, Whip Wahab addressing a press briefing at Jessore Circuit House Sunday night claimed that people dared to attack the motorcade because of “police inaction”.
At least 40 people, including an upazila chairman and an assistant superintendent of police, were injured when locals, mainly fish farmers and traders, attacked Wahab's motorcade around 10:00am yesterday. The whip was struck by a piece of brick but escaped unhurt.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers, who did not want the Tidal River Management (TRM) project the whip was going to inaugurate, torched three cars and four motorbikes. At least two women were hit by shotgun pellets fired by police to bring the situation under control.
Whip Wahab told journalists that there was no alternative to the TRM project for saving 20 lakh people of Bhabodaho from waterlogging problem.
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