Gono Odhikar Parishad: BCL activists attack Nur again
Chhatra League activists attacked and injured Nurul Haque Nur, president of a faction of Gono Odhikar Parishad, during a demonstration on Dhaka University campus yesterday.
At least 15 leaders and activists of the party and its student wing, Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, were injured in the incident.
Nur went to the DU campus to join a rally organised by Chhatra Odhikar Parishad to protest the attacks and cases against opposition party leaders and activists.
The rally also aimed to protest the recent damage of public property, harassment of civilians, the killing of madrasa student Rezaul Karim allegedly by Awami League activists, and the arrests of Buet students.
The programme was scheduled to take place in front of TSC's Raju Sculpture at 4:00pm.
However, leaders and activists of Chhatra League took position near the Raju Sculpture around 3:30pm.
Witnesses said the Parishad leaders brought out a procession on DU campus around 4:45pm. As the procession reached near TSC, a group of BCL men, including Imam Hossain Zihad, joint secretary of Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall unit, attacked them.
At one stage, they started punching and kicking Nur and his followers. As the attack intensified, Nur and his followers ran away, and the BCL men chased them, witnesses said, adding that they attacked Nur again in TSC Metro Rail station area.
Nur was taken to a private hospital with a bloody nose.
Abu Hanif, a leader of Gono Adhikar Parishad, said they were staging demonstration peacefully when BCL activists attacked them, leaving at least 15 party leaders and activists injured.
After the attack, at least 10 injured activists took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Tanbir Hasan Shaikat, general secretary of DU unit BCL, claimed no BCL activists were involved in the attack, and that general students protested the entry of some outsiders.
Nur, former Ducsu Vice-President, have been attacked by BCL men on several occasions in the past few years. The first such attack was on June 30, 2018, when BCL men beat him up in front of Dhaka University Central Library.
POLICE RAID AT NUR'S HOUSE
In a raid early yesterday, detectives broke open the door of Nur's house and arrested Chhatra Odhikar Parishad President Bin Yamin Molla.
Nur said as he refused to open the door, DB members broke the door of his house in Hatirjheel's Mahanagar project area around 2:00am.
He also alleged that DB men took away the CCTV hard drive and the mobile phone he used to go on Facebook live during the raid.
Contacted, Rajib Al Masud, deputy commissioner (DB) of Motijheel Division, said they arrested Bin Yamin in a vandalism case filed on July 21 with Paltan Police Station.
Nur said the government was repressing his activists because of their anti-government movement.
Earlier, around 2:30am, Nur went live on his Facebook page and said some people in plainclothes were seen trying to enter his house.
Muhammad Rashed Khan, general secretary of the faction, said that earlier on Tuesday, the DB also picked up Yamin's father and another Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activist, Nazmul Hasan. Both of them were later released.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday granted Yamin bail.
Talking to reporters at his office yesterday, DMP Additional Commissioner (DB) Harun Or Rashid said that the search at Nur's residence was conducted lawfully. He accused Nur of hiding an accused person, Bin Yamin, in his house.
Harun alleged that Nur not only obstructed police from carrying out their job, but also verbally abused the law enforcers.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a press statement yesterday condemned the DB raid at Nur's house and demanded the release of the Parishad leader.
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