In Brahmanbaria, 3 anti-discrimination student leaders including coordinator injured in workers’ beating, hospitalized

Local Correspondent

In Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria, the coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement and two other leaders were injured in a beating by microbus owners and workers. They have been treated at the district sadar hospital.

The incident occurred on Sunday night, March 16, at the Uchaliapara microbus stand in Sarail upazila sadar.

The injured include Baicha coordinator Irfan Khan, Alif Mahmud Nahid, and Mohammad Moazzem. Among them, Irfan Khan’s condition is reported to be critical, according to Baicha leaders.

It is learned that around 10:30 PM on Sunday, a microbus hit a motorcycle on the Sarail-Nasirnagar road in the Dhurunti area and fled to the Uchaliapara microbus stand. Locals chased the microbus and detained it at the Sarail microbus stand. An argument ensued over compensation.

Upon hearing the news, Baicha leaders arrived at the scene. When the coordinators tried to take the microbus to the police station, the microbus stand owners and workers became agitated. They claimed that the coordinators were pressuring and threatening the microbus owners to extort money under the guise of taking the vehicle to the police station. This led to a heated argument between the two sides.

At one point, agitated workers accompanying the coordinators suddenly threw a stone, shattering the microbus’s glass. Enraged by this, the microbus stand workers severely beat the coordinators, leaving at least three injured.

The acting officer-in-charge (OC) of Sarail Police Station, Md. Rafiqul Islam, stated that seven people from the microbus stand have been detained for preliminary questioning regarding the attack. Legal action is being taken in connection with the incident.