Pabna BCL men arrested for beating up on-duty cop

Two local Chhatra League men were arrested today for beating up an on-duty policeman in Pabna.

The arrestees are Ashikur Rahman Akash, 24, vice president of Maligasa Union unit BCL and his friend Hasib Ali, 29, an activist of BCL. Both of them hail from Mozidpur Haatpara in the Maligasa union of Pabna.

Ashish Kumar Shannal, officer-in-charge of Pakshey Highway Police Station, said a team of highway police halted Akash and Hasib in the Tebunia area on the Pabna-Rajshahi highway in Pabna Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon as they were riding a bike without helmets. Police seized the bike as they failed to show the papers of the bike.

When Constable Shadhan Chandra was taking the bike to the police station, the accused chased him with another bike and caught him in the Munshidpur area on the Pabna-Rajshahi highway, the OC said. He was beaten mercilessly there, he added.

The arrests were made after Shadhan filed a case against them, said Arbinda Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi Police Station.

Though the incident took place on Thursday, the police informed the media after the arrests, our Pabna correspondent reports quoting the police.

The arrestees were sent to jail by a district court, said the OC of the Ishwardi Police Station.

The victim is now being treated at Ishwardi Upazila Health Complex, he added said.