Over 2000 sued as three cases filed in Laxmipur
Three separate cases have been filed night against over 2000 people in connection with violence and killing of an ASI of police in Raipur upazila.
Officer in-charge Md Manjurul Haq Akand of Raipur PS said, SI Jahirul Haq filed a case against a few unnamed people for killing ASI Abdul Jalil near the police station early Friday.
Besides, the SI filed another case against 42 identified and 1500 unnamed people for creating violence in the upazila headquarters on Thursday night, he said.
Meanwhile, Raipur Palli Bidyut office AGM Mafiz Ahmed Kabir filed another case against 600 unnamed villagers for vandalising local Palli Bidyut office during the violence, he added.
Police arrested one Belal Hossain in this connection following the incident.
Local people put up barricades on Laxmipur-Raipur road on Thursday night and vandalised some vehicles on the road, protesting frequent loadshedding. The agitated people also vandalised Raipur Palli Bidyut office. Later, police brought the situation under control and removed the blockade.
ASI Abdul Jalil was shot dead while taking tea at a shop after returning from his duty near Raipur Police Station where he was stationed.
Initially it was claimed that Jalil had accidentally shot himself but in an autopsy conducted at Sadar hospital it was found that he was killed in firing from a shotgun, not a submachine gun issued to him.
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