Staff Reporter :
Over 1,200 unnamed people have been sued in connection with violence in Brahmanbaria district by some Madrasah students.
On Tuesday morning some Madrasah students went on a rampage throughout the district town, protesting the death of a fellow student in a clash.
They vandalised 12 establishments, set fire to two others and blocked the railway tracks during their daylong violent agitation.
Several hundred students from different madrasahs in the town blocked the railway tracks near Brahmanbaria Railway Station, cut train communications on Dhaka-Sylhet and Dhaka-Chittagong route for nearly nine hours.
Brahmanbaria Railway Station Master Mohidur Rahman lodged the case against over 1200 unnamed people in connection with arson attack, uprooting the railway track and assaulting railway officials.
“A gang of miscreants on Tuesday morning beat up the railway stationmaster, launched arson attack and uprooted the fishplates of the railway track. Stationmaster Mohidur Rahman filed the case. Sub-Inspector Mohammad Salahuddin of police outpost of railway station has been assigned to investigate the incident,” Mohammad Abdus Sattar, Officer-in-Charge of Akhaura Railway Police Station, told The New Nation.
According to sources, many students and locals left the area to avoid the arrest. A tense situation is prevailing in the area till filing of this report on Wednesday night.
Besides, superintendent of police of Brahmanbaria district said that government and non-government officials and businessmen filed at least six separate cases against 500-700 unnamed men in connection with arson attack and beating up cops.
“Rubel Farazi, officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar Police Station lodged case in connection with arson attack and beating up cops,” the police super told the New Nation.
Apart from them, Ferdous Ahmed, a shop owner of Brahmanbaria high school market, Chamon Sikder, Superintendent of Industrial School, Humayun Kabir, manager of Proshika, a non-government organisation, Dr. Rana Nurus Sams, caretaker of Brahmanbaria sadar hospital, lodged cases against the unnamed men in connection with arson attack and ransacking valuables. The superintendent of police of Brahmanbaria district said, the situation is now under control.
“Madrasah student Masudur Rahman, who died in the incident, was buried on Tuesday. We formed a three-member committee to look into the incident. The probe panel has been asked to submit its report within three working days,” he said.
