The police have arrested eight more leaders and activists of the Awami League, activities of which are now banned, from different parts of the capital allegedly for disrupting law and order by bringing out flash processions.
Several teams of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch carried out operations and arrested seven leaders and activists of the party and the other was arrested by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime, the metropolitan police said on Sunday.
It said that all of them were arrested between 5:30pm and 11:45pm on Saturday.
The arrestees include Patuakhali district Chhatra League leader Miraj Khan, 28, Sylhet city鈥檚 South Surma upazila Swechchhasebak League president Nizam Uddin, 37, Sylhet district Chhatra League organising secretary Fahim Ahmed Shah, 36, Dhaka district north Chhatra League vice-president Mobarak Hossain Palak, 32, Bangladesh Inter-District Truck Drivers鈥� Union member Faruk Hossain Akon, 50, Swechchhasebak League training and workshop affairs deputy secretary Wahedul Islam Khan Sajib, 52, Awami League activist and flash procession organiser Miraj Hossain, 26, and Swechchhasebak League agricultural affairs secretary Ershad Ali, 45.
Acting on a tip-off, a CTTC team conducted an operation and arrested Miraj Khan at Keraniganj at about 10:30pm, said the press release.
Miraj is accused in a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act with Tejgaon police station, it added.
According to DB sources, Nizam and Fahim were arrested at Nikunja, while Palak and Faruk at Shegunbagicha, Sajib at Rasulbagh, Miraj Hossain at Kamrangirchar, and Ershad was arrested at Badda in Dhaka.
On October 10, Mohammadpur and Dhanmondi police arrested five leaders and activists of the AL and its affiliated organisations at Dhanmondi-27 while taking preparations to bring out a flash procession there.
Leaders and activists of the AL and its associates have recently been staging flash processions across the capital despite law enforcers鈥� strict stance on such processions. The law enforcers arrested a number of leaders and activists of the AL and its associates during such processions.聽