Staff Reporter :
Police did not arrest any one in connection with the incident of attack on motorcade of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia during campaign for Dhaka City Corporations polls in the city’s Karwanbazar in the capital on Monday.
Police also failed to arrest the culprits in last 24 hours after publishing the photos of some attackers on the print and electronic media, police sources said.
However, the law enforcers did not take any step to detain the accused in two cases over the incident till Wednesday night, they said.
Awami League and BNP have already filed two separate cases in connection with the attack on motorcade of Khaleda Zia, said ABM Moshiur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tejgaon Police Station.
A local Awami League leader has filed a case against 100 unknown BNP men with the Tejgaon thana over the attack, the police official said.
Jahirul Haq, chief of Ward No. 26 unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League lodged the complaint on Monday night, the OC said.
Menwhile, Tejgaon police station accepted the case filed by the BNP over the attack on Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on Tuesday afternoon, he added.
The three-member team led by Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon filed the complaint around 10:30am Tuesday.
The complaint says gunshots were targeting Khaleda Zia. It also states
that over 150 activists of Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League, Shramik League and Chhatra League attacked the chairperson’s vehicles, chanting ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan.
The attack on Khaleda Zia took place when a group of campaigners of the ruling Awami League had just finished an election meeting near the kitchen market. The meeting was in favour of the ruling party-backed mayoral candidate Annisul Huq and a local ward councillor candidate whose symbol is a pumpkin.
Two persons among those who attacked Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on Monday have been identified from the photos captured during the incident, sources said. They are Al Amin, a member of Tejgaon thana Chhatra League’s executive committee, and Jakir, vice-president of ward 26 Chhatra League.
Confessing his involvement in the attack, Al Amin told the media over phone: “I went there for shopping. I got hurt when a brick was hurled at my hand and then I protested.”
On the other hand, Jakir Tuesday admitted that he is a Chhatra League leader and said his father was ill. Then the call was disconnected.
Tejgaon OC also claimed that police could neither identify nor detain anyone involved in the attack.
State Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade was attacked due to overplay of her security squad known as Chairperson’s Security Force (CSF).
The state minister came up with this assertion while talking to reporters in secretariat of the city Tuesday noon.
CSF attacked on the people, who showed black flags to the BNP campaigners. The force members also tried to take a man into the vehicle, the state minister alleged.
At one stage, the people had thrown brick-chips on CSF, he claimed.
Police did not arrest any one in connection with the incident of attack on motorcade of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia during campaign for Dhaka City Corporations polls in the city’s Karwanbazar in the capital on Monday.
Police also failed to arrest the culprits in last 24 hours after publishing the photos of some attackers on the print and electronic media, police sources said.
However, the law enforcers did not take any step to detain the accused in two cases over the incident till Wednesday night, they said.
Awami League and BNP have already filed two separate cases in connection with the attack on motorcade of Khaleda Zia, said ABM Moshiur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tejgaon Police Station.
A local Awami League leader has filed a case against 100 unknown BNP men with the Tejgaon thana over the attack, the police official said.
Jahirul Haq, chief of Ward No. 26 unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League lodged the complaint on Monday night, the OC said.
Menwhile, Tejgaon police station accepted the case filed by the BNP over the attack on Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on Tuesday afternoon, he added.
The three-member team led by Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon filed the complaint around 10:30am Tuesday.
The complaint says gunshots were targeting Khaleda Zia. It also states
that over 150 activists of Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League, Shramik League and Chhatra League attacked the chairperson’s vehicles, chanting ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan.
The attack on Khaleda Zia took place when a group of campaigners of the ruling Awami League had just finished an election meeting near the kitchen market. The meeting was in favour of the ruling party-backed mayoral candidate Annisul Huq and a local ward councillor candidate whose symbol is a pumpkin.
Two persons among those who attacked Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on Monday have been identified from the photos captured during the incident, sources said. They are Al Amin, a member of Tejgaon thana Chhatra League’s executive committee, and Jakir, vice-president of ward 26 Chhatra League.
Confessing his involvement in the attack, Al Amin told the media over phone: “I went there for shopping. I got hurt when a brick was hurled at my hand and then I protested.”
On the other hand, Jakir Tuesday admitted that he is a Chhatra League leader and said his father was ill. Then the call was disconnected.
Tejgaon OC also claimed that police could neither identify nor detain anyone involved in the attack.
State Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade was attacked due to overplay of her security squad known as Chairperson’s Security Force (CSF).
The state minister came up with this assertion while talking to reporters in secretariat of the city Tuesday noon.
CSF attacked on the people, who showed black flags to the BNP campaigners. The force members also tried to take a man into the vehicle, the state minister alleged.
At one stage, the people had thrown brick-chips on CSF, he claimed.
