500 Jamaat-Shibir men sued in Bagerhat

Police sued 500 Jamaat-Shibir men in Bagerhat on Tuesday and arrested four Jamaat activists in Jamalpur yesterday.
Police in Bagerhat filed a case on Tuesday against some 500 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and  Chhatra Shibir on charge of attacking the law enforcers  and preventing them from discharging their duties in Fakirhat upazila,  during the  dawn-to-dusk hartal on the day.
Sub-inspector Rabindra Nath Mandol of Fakirhat police station filed the case with the police station at  night against 35 named and other unidentified Jamaat-Shibir men, reports UNB.
The accused include Jamaat upazila ameer Taibur Ali.
Masudul Alam, officer in-charge at Fakirhat police station, said the accused damaged vehicles and put up barricade on the Bagerhat-Khulna Highway by placing logs at Kathaltala point during the countrywide shutdown on Tuesday.
The leaders and activists of Jamaat-Shibir also  clashed with police when the law enforcers intercepted them.
In Jamalpur, police arrested four Jamaat activists at Dharmakora Bazar under Islampur upazila yesterday on charge of making a plot to create anarchy in the upazila.
The arrestees were identified as Maulana Md. Rafiqul Islam, 47, of Netrakona district, also principal of Degrirchar Jamia Mafijia Madrasa, Md. Sultan Mahmood, 25, of Guthail Bazar, Md. Ilias Ali, 23, of Polobandha village and Md. Monir Hossain, 30, of Bhengura village under the upazila, reports our correspondent.
On a tip-off, a police team raided the Bazar and managed to capture them when they came out of the mosque after a secret meeting, said Md. Matiar Rahman, officer in-charge (OC) of  Islampur police station.
Contacted, Md. Belaet Hossain, Nayeb-e Ameer of Jamalpur district unit Jamaat said that the arrestees were not the members of his party.