Hartal extended till 6:00pm in Sylhet protesting the arrest
Prime News Report
Dhaka: As part of the law enforcers’ crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhtra Shibir, Rapid Action Battalion arrested acting secretary general of Jamaat Dr Shafiqur Rahman from his Dhanmondi residence in the early hours of Thursday.
A team of RAB raided the Dhanmondi residence of the Jamaat leader and detained him at about 3:30am, RAB sources confirmed the news. He was detained for his alleged involvement in pre-hartal violence and also attack on a US Embassy vehicle on December 4.
Police sources said he was shown arrested in the cases filed over vandalism and vehicle torching case in Kakrail area on September 19 and also torching of vehicle in front of PMO on April 29 during hartal.
Protesting the arrest of Shafiqur, the Sylhet city unit of Jamaat extended the hartal in Sylhet division till 6:00 pm.
Assistant secretary general of Sylhet City Jamaat Fakhrul Islam said they have extended the hartal in Sylhet division till 6:00 pm protesting the arrest of Shafiqur.
Law enforcers have been conducting raids across the country to net Jamaat-Shibir activists for their alleged involvement in a series of sudden attacks on policemen and vandalism on streets damaging both public and private properties.
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