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Joint forces arrest 88 Jamaat-Shibir, BNP activists in 8 districts

Star Country Desk
Joint forces arrested at least 88 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP activists in eight districts yesterday and on Wednesday night fortheir alleged involvement in destructive activities during opposition sponsored hartals and blockades, according to our correspondents and UNB.
Of them, 17 were arrested in Chandpur, 15 in Joypurhat, 14 in Jessore, 11 in Jhenidah, nine in Bogra, 10 in Feni, nine in Bhola and the rest three in Cox's Bazar.
In Chandpur, Law enforcers in separate drives arrested 17 activists of BNP-led 18-party alliance, raiding different areas of five upazilas of the district yesterday. Police said they arrested the opposition activists on charge of carrying out destructive activities during hartals and blockades. The arrestees were produced in a court that sentthem to jail
In Joypurhat, joint forces, comprising police, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 15 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir activists from different upazilas of the district on Wednesday night for their alleged involvement in violent activities during hartals and blockades.
Sources in the office of Joypurhat superintendent of police said the law enforcers arrested five people from Sadar upazila, four from Panchbibi upazila, two from Kalai upazila and the remaining four from Akkelpurupazila.
In Jessore joint forces conducted raids in eight upazilas of the district on Wednesday night and arrested 14 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men. Of the arrestees, 10 are from BNP and the rest four from Jamaat-Shibir.
Reshma Sharmin, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in Jessore said the law enforcers arrested the opposition activists for their alleged involvement in subversive activities during the recent hartals and blockades.
In Jhenidah, 11 Jamaat-Shibir activists were arrested from Samanta village under Moheshpur upazila of the district yesterday afternoon.
The arrestees are Shafi Uddin, Karim Ali, Sariat Ullah, Nasirul Islam, Sariat Uddin, Hazrat Ali, Abdul Mannan, Abdul Malek, Md Shafiuzzaman, Abdul Hannan and Abdus Sattar.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Akram Hossain of Moheshpur Police Station said joint forces launched a drive at the village at around 2:30pm and arrested the Jamaat-Shibir men on charge of carrying out destructive activities during the blockades.
In Bogra. Law enforcers arrested nine people on charges of vandalising and torching vehicles and felling of roadside trees in Dupchanchia upazila of the district early yesterday.
The arrestees are Alam Hossain, 30, Lutfar Rahman, 45, Imamul Haque, 35, Hanna Banu, 36, Omar Faruque, 28, Chana Mia, 32, Phulbar Sardar, 60, Sultan Mahmud Ra tan, 40, and Rubel Talukdar, 28.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Riaz Ahmed of Dupchanchia Police Station said joint forces arrested the nine, raiding different areas of theuapzila.
The arrestees were yesterday produced in a Bogra court that sent them to jail, the OC added.
In Feni, 10 BNP and Jamaat men were arrested in joint drives by police, BGB and Rab in three upazilas of the district on Wednesday night. Ofthem, six were arrested in Sadar upazila, and two each in Parashuram and Sonagazi upazilas.
In Bhola, nine activists of Islami Chatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, were arrested from Kheyaghat area under Sadar upazi la of the district yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, law enforcers led by Police Superintendent Md Moniruzzaman launched a drive in the area at around 5:00pm and arrested the Shibir men.
In Cox's Bazar, three Jamaat men, including Ukia upazila unit secretary Sultan Ahmed, were arrested on Wednesday night on charges of attack on the election rally of AL candidate Abdur Rahman Bodi on December 18, putting up barricades on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf Road and attack on cops during blockades. They were yesterday