Sarail (Brahmanbaria) Correspondent :
A clash was took place between a section of local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Police during a hartal enforced by the party protesting the visit of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Nabinagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Imtiaj Ahmed and four cops personnel were injured by some unidentified BCL men during duty to protocol the minister on the way to Bijoynagr from Dhaka in the afternoon, said Chittaranjan Pala, Additional Superintendent of Police (Nabinagar Circle) in Brahmanbaria.
Superintendent of Police of the district Mizanur Rahman said that Imtiaj Ahmed was injured during a chase and counter-chase between police and pickets Chandua bus stand area in the afternoon.
The injured were admitted to Sarail Health Complex, the police official said.
The law enforcers took the control in the upazilas as per the preplan, the SP said.
Two platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), five teams of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and more than 150 policemen have been deployed at the important points of the district to ward off any untoward incident, he said.
Later, a case was filed against 120 people with Bijoynagar Police Station in connection with the incident, the SP added.
Earlier on Friday, the district administration imposed section 144 in Sadar, Bijoynagar, Sarail and Ashuganj upazilas amid the hartal, he added.
On Thursday, district unit of Awami League announced the enforcement of the hartal protesting the minister’s visit to inaugurate a livestock center in Bijoynagar upazila and boycotted the inaugural programme of the centre.
