Police claimed to have arrested nine members of a bike-stealing gang along with 11 stolen motorcycles from different parts of Brahmanbaria's Sadar upazila. A team of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station conducted operations last night and made the arrest. Confirming the development, Kazi Masud Ibn Anwar, Inspector (Investigation) of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station,
Ishtiaq joined the police station in 2014 and was promoted as an inspector on December, 2019.
His transfer comes one and half month after Hefajat-e-Islam activists carried out violence in Brahmanbaria on March 26 to March 28 centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
Earlier on April 26, Md Abdur Rahim, officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station was transferred and attached to Rangpur Range Police.
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Four Hefajat leaders on police remand
Mufti Harun Izhar Star Report Star Report
Four Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were placed on remand yesterday in seven cases filed with police stations in the capital and Chattogram over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka and Chattogram.
The leaders are: Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary of Hefajat s now dissolved committee; Maulana Jubair Ahmed, former vice-president of its Dhaka city unit, and Maulana Jalaluddin Ahmed, former assistant general secretary, and Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the dissolved central committee.
Azizul was put on remand for seven days in two cases filed with the capital s Paltan Police Station over March 26 violence centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while Jubair was in a six-day remand in two cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in D
Rahim took charge of the police station on August 31 last year.
His transfer came a month after Hefajat-e-Islam activists carried out violence in Brahmanbaria on March 26 centring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
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Hefajat’s mayhem: Jubo Dal activist among 11 arrested in Brahmanbaria
Jubo Dal activist Hasmat Khandaker. Photo: Collected
Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
Police have arrested 11 more people, including a Jubo Dal activist, in the cases filed over vandalism and arson during a demonstration by Hefajat-e Islam activists in Brahmanbaria on March 26 and 28 centring the visit of Indian PM Narendra Modi, said in a press release sent from the Special Branch of the district police.
Among them, Hasmat Khandaker (49) of Ghatura village in Sadar upazila, Jubo Dal organising secretary of Brahmanbaria district unit, is the prime accused of a case filed in connection with the attack on Brahmanbaria Police Lines during Hefajat-enforced hartal on March 28.