UNB, Comilla :
Two cases have been filed against some 97 BNP-Jamaat activists in connection with Monday’s torching of vehicles in Comilla city and Burichang upazila of the district.
A case was filed against 17 identified and 30 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men with Kotwali Model Police Station for torching three vehicles and vandalising 20-25 others in the city no Monday evening. Sub-inspector of the police station Badal filed the case.
Khorshed Alam, officer-in-charge of the station, said a group of 25-30 miscreants, carrying sticks, brought out a procession at Ramghat in the name of celebrating the victory of Bangladesh Cricket Team over England in the World Cup on Monday evening.
They suddenly started damaging vehicles and hurling petrol bombs at those.
Two auto-rickshaws were torched and 20-25 others damaged during the mayhem.
At the same time, another group of miscreants set a private car afire through hurling a petrol bomb at it in Race Course area.
In another incident, three covered vans were torched by miscreants at Sayedpur on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Burichang upazila around 11:30 pm on Monday.
Nasir Uddin, sub-inspector of Burichang Police Station, filed a case against 30 identified and 20 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men.
Meanwhile, police arrested four people in connection with the incident.
Two cases have been filed against some 97 BNP-Jamaat activists in connection with Monday’s torching of vehicles in Comilla city and Burichang upazila of the district.
A case was filed against 17 identified and 30 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men with Kotwali Model Police Station for torching three vehicles and vandalising 20-25 others in the city no Monday evening. Sub-inspector of the police station Badal filed the case.
Khorshed Alam, officer-in-charge of the station, said a group of 25-30 miscreants, carrying sticks, brought out a procession at Ramghat in the name of celebrating the victory of Bangladesh Cricket Team over England in the World Cup on Monday evening.
They suddenly started damaging vehicles and hurling petrol bombs at those.
Two auto-rickshaws were torched and 20-25 others damaged during the mayhem.
At the same time, another group of miscreants set a private car afire through hurling a petrol bomb at it in Race Course area.
In another incident, three covered vans were torched by miscreants at Sayedpur on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Burichang upazila around 11:30 pm on Monday.
Nasir Uddin, sub-inspector of Burichang Police Station, filed a case against 30 identified and 20 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men.
Meanwhile, police arrested four people in connection with the incident.
