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Eviction of Illegal Cattle Market in Sylhet

Irked pro-AL men go berserk

Beat up cop, journo; block road, vandalise vehicles; set up market again just hours after drive

Staff Correspondent, sylhet
About 200 activists of pro-Awami League (AL) organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and AL's youth front Jubo League barricaded an intersection, vandalised vehicles and beat up a journalist and a uniformed policeman after an illegal cattle market they set up was evicted in Sylhet city yesterday.
While pedestrians and shopkeepers fled in panic, a contingent of some 40 to 50 police stood unmoving just yards away at Rikabibazar intersection. The District Police Lines is situated around 30 yards from the spot.
Lifting the barricade around one and a half hours later at 5:30pm, the activists, whom locals believe to be of Lamabazar, Medical Road and Kajal Shah areas, set up the market again on two half-a-kilometre stretches from Rikabibazar intersection, one leading to Mirer Maidan and the other Chouhatta.
Using loudspeakers, they claimed of having reached an agreement with the adminis-
tration over re-establishing the market.
Intermittently they said out loud, "Police are part of the government...we are also the government's men...we have no dispute with them., .the market will run".
This correspondent found the activists stopping trucks carrying cattle from going to the city's lone authorised market in Kazirbazar and telling traders to unload the sacrificial animals at their illegal market.
Executive Magistrate Kazi Arifiir Rahman, who had carried out the eviction around 1:30pm, said the expulsion was ordered by the mayor.
The barricade was placed around 4:00pm from when some 20 vehicles, mainly rickshaws and auto-rickshaws, were vandalised by the activists raising the "Joy Bangla" slogan.
The assaulted cop, whose identity is yet to be found, was on one of the rickshaws and he fled toward the police lines.
During the assault on Kamkamur Razzaque Runu, journalist of private television channel RTV, his camera was snatched
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One man leading the groups of activists, giving his name as Liton Pal and claiming to be Jubo League's ward 8 unit convener, said the market was set up to use the proceeds to assist
financially insolvent patients at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
Sub-Inspector Sirajul Islam, the in-charge of Lamabazar Police Camp who was on duty at the area, said they were awaiting further orders.