STAR REPORT

Police sued 11,000 unnamed garment workers over vandalism and clashes with law enforcers in Gazipur’s Konabari area.

A Gazipur court yesterday sent 11 arrestees to jail, who were held by Rab and police on Thursday, in one of the cases.

Abu Sayed, sub-inspector of Gazipur Metropolitan’s Konabari Police Station, filed the case against 12 workers, including the arrestees, and 3,000-4,000 others unnamed on Thursday night.

Talking to The Daily Star, Sayed said the workers ransacked Tusuka factory in Konabari, demanding a wage hike. A car of a deputy commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police was also vandalised in front of the factory.

The arrestees are workers of different factories. Efforts are on to arrest the others, he added.

On Wednesday, SI Sanir Hasan Khan of Konabari Police Station filed another case accusing 6,000-7,000 unnamed people.

Workers said they started demonstrating on the premises of Tusuka Garments around 3:00pm on Thursday, adding that the management then called in police who beat up several workers.

The protesters threw brick chunks at police and the factory, said witnesses.

Police used teargas, sound grenades, and firearms to disperse the workers.

A labour leader of Konabari area, seeking anonymity, told this “We

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