BCL leader stabbed in capital

A local leader of pro-Awami League Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed allegedly by activists of pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in the capital's Uttar Badda area yesterday.
The victim was Mahmudul Hasan Bijoy, 23, general secretary of BCL Ward No 21 unit of Dhaka North City Corporation.
He is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with five cut wounds in different parts of his body.
Bijoy, also a student of philosophy department at Government Titumir College, said some four to five Shibir activists stabbed him when he came out of his house around 2:30pm.
"The Shibir activists started stabbing me, saying that I took part in the procession celebrating the announcement of Delawar Hossain Sayedee's death penalty," he said.
Badda Police Station Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Hossain, however, said Bijoy was stabbed as a sequel to a feud over business.
"We have already identified the attackers," he said that they were trying to arrest them.