8 Awami Jubo League leaders and activists arrested while preparing for procession in Chittagong

❐ Local Correspondent

Police have arrested eight leaders and activists of the Awami Jubo League during preparations for a surprise procession in Chittagong city.

They were detained with banners in front of the Rifle Club under Kotwali Police Station on Friday morning, February 20th.

The arrested are: Md. Tushar (20), son of Didarul Alam of Banshkhali’s Chapachhari area, Md. Masudur Rahman (24), son of Mizbah Rahman Chowdhury of Ratnapur Ward No. 2, Abdullah Al Noman (20), son of Abul Kalam Azad of Fatehabad Sandhip Colony in Hathazari, Md. Rakib (19), son of Md. Swapan, Ibrahim Hossain Babu (22), son of the late Jahangir Alam,

The deceased are Md. Sharif Hossain Munna (20), son of the deceased Nurul Haque, Md. Riaz Hossain (20), son of Md. Bahar, and Syed Hamid Miyaji (22), son of Osman Gani of Syedpara area of ​​Satkania. Police said that all of them are workers of the Chittagong Metropolitan Jubo League.

Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Aftab Uddin said that some Jubo League workers were preparing for a procession in front of the Rifle Club in the morning. Based on a secret tip-off, a raid was conducted there and 8 people were arrested.

The OC said that the process of taking legal action against them is underway.