A police officer has
fined his subordinates for failing to compensate the owners of two
auto-rickshaws damaged by strike supporters in Rajshahi.
Officer in-Charge of the Rajshahi Metropolitan City Detective Police, Alamgir Hossain, said the money was given to the drivers whose auto-ricksgas were damaged in the first hours of the 60-hour countrywide strike by the 18-party opposition alliance.
Mahbub also scorned the junior officers for failing to protect people’s property.
Like elsewhere in the country, the shutdown to force the formation of a non-party, poll-time government was marked by sporadic clashes between strike supporters and security personnel, and arson and violence allegedly by the opposition activists in Rajshahi.
But the police paying up for damages caused by picketers was quite out of the ordinary.
Rajshahi police have arrested six people during the strike.
According to police, the BNP-led 18-party alliance took out a procession in the city’s Hetmokha area around 6.30am, blocking the streets with bonfires.
A motorbike was torched at the city’s Bornali intersection around 8am despite the deployment of additional police personnel, Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh.
In another development, nearly 500 opposition activists were accused in a case filed at the Motihar Police Station in connection with Saturday’s clash between opposition activists and Rab and police personnel that left one dead.
The police station’s Officer in-Charge Abdus Subhan said 46 people were named in the case, while the rest were ‘unidentified’ people.
Police have slapped murder charges on 12 people picked up during the clash.
Islami Chhatra Shibir leader Rashedul Islam Rashed was killed during a pre-shutdown demonstration at Kajla and Binodpur on Saturday.
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