Police on Saturday arrested seven more people, including four Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front bodies leaders, over the allegations of attacking and vandalising the Patgram police station.
Although the BNP denied its involvement in the police station attack and vandalism on Friday, the party expelled three local party and front bodies leaders on Saturday, following Wednesday鈥檚 incident, party sources said.
Of the seven new arrestees, police held five in the聽 case filed over attacking and vandalising the police station and two others in another case filed with the Hatibandha police station over
obstructing government duties, said Lalmonirhat district superintendent of police Md Torikul Islam.
He said that BNP鈥檚 volunteer wing Jatiytabadi Swechhasebak Dal鈥檚 Hatibandha upazila unit convener Nurnabi Kajol was arrested among the two.聽
鈥榃e have arrested 11 people so far in two cases. We are not sparing anyone who is involved in the incidents,鈥� the SP said.
He said that they were arresting accused after analysing CCTV footages, adding that the drive to arrest the perpetrators would continue.
Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal Hatibandha upazila unit convener Nurnabi Kajol was expelled from his party post primarily for breaching the party discipline, according to a letter issued by the central committee of the organisation for internal consumption.
The BNP Lalmonirhat district unit expelled Patgram upazila unit鈥檚 former member Md Jahangir Mustafiz Chapal while the party鈥檚 youth wing Jatiytabadi Juba Dal central committee expelled its Patgram municipality unit joint convener Mahmud Hossain.
According to police, about 200-250 people attacked and vandalised the police station at about 10:30pm on July 2, leaving seven police personnel, including the officer-in-charge, injured.
On July 2 evening, Patgram upazila nirbahi officer Uttam Kumar Das detained Belal Hossain and Sohel Rana during a mobile court operation while they were reportedly receiving money from transport workers in Sororbazar area on the Lalmonirhat-Burimari Highway along Patgram.
The UNO, who is also an executive magistrate, sentenced them to one-month each in prison on extortion charges.
