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CITY CORPORATION ELECTI0NS 2018 : Sylhet

'Case spree' against BNP-JCD men on

Our Correspondent, sylhet
Police on Thursday filed another case against 48 BNP-JCD leaders and 20-25 unnamed persons over a crude bomb attack on the law enforcers on Wednesday night in Syihet city.
With this, 121 BNP-JCD leaders and activists were sued in three cases filed by police and Awami League in last one week. In these cases, another 120 unnamed persons had also been accused.
BNP leaders alleged that police and AL leaders filed the cases only to harass them ahead of the Syihet city polls, scheduled for Monday.
Asad Uddin Ahmed, general secretary of Syihet city unit of AL, refuted the allegation.
Earlier on Sunday, two separate cases were filed with Shahporan Police Station against 73 BNP-JCD leaders.
In these cases, police sued 39 BNP men for unlawfully staging a sit-in in front of the office of a deputy commissioner of police. Another case was filed by an AL leader against 34 BNP men for an arson attack on an electoral camp of their candidate.
In the case filed on Thursday with Dakshin Surma Police Station, police accused Akther Hossain, president of ward-26 unit of Syihet city BNP, as prime accused along with several city unit BNP-JCD leaders and some central Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders.
Around 10:00pm on Wednesday, Subinspector Rayhan Uddin of Dakshin Surma Police Station was injured in a crude bomb attack in Mominkhala area. He later filed the case, said OC Khairul Fazal of the police station.
Meanwhile, police arrested BNP activist Niyamat Elahi and JCD activist Momtaj Hossain Munna at their houses on Thursday night, said Mosarraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station. They were arrested in cases filed with the station earlier, the OC said.
With the duo, seven BNP-JCD men were arrested in the last one week.
BNP leaders also claimed that many party leaders were not participating in campaigning as they were being "intimidated" by the law enforcers.
They also said they have verbally informed the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner and returning officer about the matter.
On Tuesday, some 50 BNP-JCD leaders got anticipatory bail from the High Court and the HC ordered the law enforcers not to harass any BNP-JCD men before the election.
Nasim Hossain, president of Sylhet city unit BNP, said, “All these cases are forcing our leaders not to stay at their home at night as police continue to raid their house.
"Police have already arrested seven of our leaders and activists. We still don't know the fate of many others whether they are arrested or in hiding. We fear such case spree may continue," he added.
"They [police] are not providing us with a good environment by destroying the level playing field. They are also violating the HC order," he alleged.
Contacted, Proloy Kumar Saha, assistant returning officer, said, "We have received BNP's complaints and have forwarded those to the police commissioner. We are also monitoring the overall situation.”
The Daily Star tried to get in touch with the police commissioner and additional police commissioner for their comments but they did not receive the repeated phone calls.
Meanwhile, other police officials kept on insisting that this correspondent should only contact the high officials for comments.