UNB, Chittagong :
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) and district police have taken special security measures in the city and elsewhere of the district to thwart any kind of sabotage during Wednesday’s daylong hartal of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat is set to enforce the dawn-to-dusk shutdown in greater Chittagong protesting the arrest of its 21 leaders and activists.
Police sources said, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be deployed in Lohagarah and Satkania upazilas of the district during the hartal hours.
Masud Ul Hasan, deputy commissioner of CMP, said about 2,000 policemen will be deployed in the city on Wednesday to maintain the law-and-order situation while Rapid Action Battalion personnel will keep vigil at important points of the city. Iltutmish, additional superintendent of Chittagong police, they have also taken a special security measure in the district.
On Monday, local Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called the daylong hartal protesting the arrest of its leaders and activists, including city unit ameer and former MP ANM Shamsul Islam.
Meanwhile, police filed a case against the arrested Jamaat men with Kotwali Police Station.
Imam Hossain, sub-inspector of the police station, filed the case under the Anti-Terrorism Act on Monday night. Police arrested the 21 Jamaat leaders and activists while they were holding a meeting at their office in the city’s Dewanbazar area Monday. All of them were also sued on Tuesday.
