14 BNP leaders and workers have been arrested in Laxmipur in two cases of assault and sabotage on the police, they are residents of different areas of Sadar Upazila.
They were arrested in a raid from last Thursday afternoon to night.
The 14 leaders and workers who were arrested have been identified and the identities of seven have been found. Monir Hossain (39), Abdul Momin (30), Md. Motaleb (25), Farooq Hossain (40), Fazlul Karim (35), Ismail Hossain (40) and Babul Hossain (30).
The police conducted a raid on the top leaders of the BNP in the city last night, although none of them were arrested.
Laxmipur Sadar Police Station (OC) Mohammad Mosleh Uddin said that the operation is being conducted to arrest the accused in the case. So far 14 people have been arrested and the police operation to arrest the other accused is continuing.
More than half a hundred people of the police and BNP were injured in the last hour of clashes between the police and BNP in front of Jhumur Cinema Hall and Ramgati Saker Modern Hospital in the district town around 5 pm last Tuesday.
The Laxmipur Sadar Thana police filed two cases in the plaintiff, two of which were reported to be named 55 people as the main accused in BNP Central Publicity Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury alias Annie.
This is the last Tuesday. A worker named Sajib Hossain (30) was killed in Kupi.
The BNP leaders claim that the police are conducting a case of arresting the BNP from the ground of the movement, but the police say that the criminals are being arrested on the basis of specific allegations.
Central BNP's publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury told Prothom Alo on the phone, ‘An the peaceful procession of BNP, a case is being filed in our name.
BNP leaders and workers cannot be suppressed by lawsuits, attacks and arrests. One of our demands is that we will not return home until the demand is not accepted.’
