Three cases filed

Three cases, two under the speedy trial act, were filed yesterday accusing 268 BNP men, including the Madhupur municipality mayor, and 500 unidentified others over Thursday's clash in Tangail's Madhupur upazila.
At least 50 people were injured and over 100 vehicles damaged when supporters of the mayor, Sarkar Shahid, also the upazila unit BNP general secretary, clashed with police protesting his arrest.
The cases under the act were filed over the torching of a police van and motorcycle while the last for obstructing law enforcers from their duties. Of the accused, 26 have been arrested, informed police.
On Wednesday night, supporters of Fakir Mahbub Anam Swapan, an MP aspirant who assists Shahid, vandalised billboards of another MP aspirant from BNP, Bhuiyan Mahbub Abdul Latif, at Madhupur bus station, leading to a skirmish between the two BNP factions.
Shahid was arrested after Latif's brother Amzad Hossain, councillor of ward no 6, filed the case with Madhupur Police Station that night, accusing Shahid and his men of shooting at his house during the skirmish.