Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during student protests for quota reform for government jobs that left over 200 killed.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate courts on Thursday sent 251 people to jail and placed 16 people on remand in connection with cases filed on charges of violence.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohagh Uddin placed Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman and former parliament member Andaleeve Rahman Partho on a five-day remand in a case filed over vandalising and setting Setu Bhaban in the capital鈥檚 Banani area on fire on July 18.
Claiming his innocence, Partho told the court that he was not involved in the heinous offences.
He said that a generation was turning away from politics because of how it was conducted these days.
鈥楾he country will survive only if politics survives. If there is fair politics, the country will survive,鈥� he told the court.
Fifteen other people were placed on remand in聽 connection with cases filed at seven police stations in Dhaka.
At least 1,680 people were sent to jail by different courts in Dhaka between July 19 and July 25.聽
Dhaka Metropolitan Police said on Thursday that they had arrested 451 people in 24 hours in connection with violence during protests.
DMP assistant deputy commissioner KN Roy Niyati told 抖阴精品 that a total of 2,209 suspects had been arrested in special drives in the past four days.
He said that at least 128 cases were filed between July 23 and July 24 in Dhaka.
The Rapid Action Battalion said on Thursday that they had arrested 55 people in Dhaka and 173 from various parts of the country in the past five days.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said in a press briefing in Rangpur that members of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami carried out the violence in an organised way during the quota movement in the country.
鈥楾hey had a plan to make Bangladesh a dysfunctional state, creating a reign of terror and an unrest situation,鈥� he said.
At least 829 others were arrested in Chattogram, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Feni, and Sirajganj between Wednesday and Thursday.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Chattogram reported that at least 735 suspects had been arrested in 28 cases between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday night.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported that the police arrested 53 people, mostly leaders and activists of the opposition parties.
Among the arrested, the Rajshahi metropolitan police arrested 39 people, while the district police arrested 14 people, increasing the number of arrests to 269.
At least 17 cases have been filed since July 18, where over 200 named and 1,000 unnamed people have been accused.
Kaium Mia, organising secretary of the Rajshahi University unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, filed a case against 20 students of the university for vandalising his room and motorcycle, said Mobarak Hossain, officer-in-charge of Matihar police station.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Rangpur reported that police arrested 15 suspects between July 24 and July 25, increasing the number of arrests in the district to 110.
The arrestees included BNP Sarai union unit vice-president Md Mostak Ahmed.
Feni additional superintendent of police Thowai Aungpru Marma said the four members of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami were among 74 arrested in the past seven days in two cases filed in connection with the sabotage during the student movement in Feni, reported 抖阴精品 correspondent.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Sirajganj reported that 15 suspects, mostly members of the opposition parties, had been arrested on violence and sabotage charges between Wednesday night and Thursday evening.
At least 156 suspects have been arrested in the past eight days on similar charges in the district.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Narsingdi reported that at least 27 people were arrested on Thursday in the district in connection with cases filed on charges of violence.
