Police arrested 139 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat activists in connection with the violence amid students鈥� protests demanding reformation in government job quota in Sylhet.
So far, police arrested 139 people till Saturday morning in 11 cases filed over clashes, vandalism and arson attacks carried out during the students鈥� demonstration for quota reformation, said Mohammad Saiful Islam, deputy-commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (media).
BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami activists were among the arrested, he said.
The cases were filed for assaulting police, obstructing police from performing duties under the Explosives Substances Act and the Special Powers Act.
Six cases were filed with Kotwali police station, four with Jalalabad police station and one with Dakkhin Surma police station.
The cases were filed against 244 unnamed people and 16,015 named ones.
