Sylhet Bureau :
Police arrested seven local BNP leaders from a meeting near BNP office in Tahirpur upazila on Friday night on charge of planning sabotage.
The arrested BNP men are- Tahirpur upazila unit general secretary Ruhul Amin, joint secretary Mahbubur Rahman Chowdhury, publication secretary Sajidur Rahman, upazila Sramik Dal president Ferdous Alam, its general secretary Emdadul Huda, upazila BNP members Kamal Pasha and Nabab Hossain.
On information about a secret meeting, a team of police conducted a drive on the embankment of Bolai River behind the local BNP office while a group of BNP men was holding a meeting there around 9pm, making their 40th founding anniversary, said Chandan Kumar Dhar, officer-in-charge of Tahirpur Police Station.
Sensing the presence of police, around 40 BNP men jumped into the river and fled away, he said.
Police arrested seven local BNP leaders from a meeting near BNP office in Tahirpur upazila on Friday night on charge of planning sabotage.
The arrested BNP men are- Tahirpur upazila unit general secretary Ruhul Amin, joint secretary Mahbubur Rahman Chowdhury, publication secretary Sajidur Rahman, upazila Sramik Dal president Ferdous Alam, its general secretary Emdadul Huda, upazila BNP members Kamal Pasha and Nabab Hossain.
On information about a secret meeting, a team of police conducted a drive on the embankment of Bolai River behind the local BNP office while a group of BNP men was holding a meeting there around 9pm, making their 40th founding anniversary, said Chandan Kumar Dhar, officer-in-charge of Tahirpur Police Station.
Sensing the presence of police, around 40 BNP men jumped into the river and fled away, he said.
