The police on Friday filed two cases with Vasantek and Kafrul police stations in Dhaka against 1,100 unnamed readymade garment workers for setting fire to an army jeep and a police van during a clash in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur on Thursday.
The readymade garment workers were also accused of obstructing the members of law enforcement agencies from performing government duty during the three-hour clashes with the members of law enforcement agencies on the capital鈥檚 Mirpur-14 Kochukhet road.
A team of Vasantek police on Friday also arrested six garment workers in the case filed with the police station, Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for Mirpur Division, Md Makhsudur Rahman, said.
鈥榃e are trying to identify the attackers for arresting them. None was arrested by Kafrul police,鈥� the DC added.
Vasantek police station officer-in-charge Faisal Ahmed said that they filed a case with his police station against 450-500 unidentified garment workers for setting fire to two vehicles of the police and the army and obstructing them from discharging government duty.
Kafrul police station officer-in-charge Kazi Golam Mostafa said that 500-600 unnamed RMG workers were made accused in the case filed with his police station.
During the clashs, at least two teenage RMG workers also sustained bullet injuries as the members of the security agencies allegedly opened fire on protesters during the clashes.
The injured workers, Md Al-Amin, 18, and Jhuma Akter, 15, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with bullet injuries.
The workers alleged that the factory line chief Md Kabir and his brother-in-law had tortured a number of workers, including a female worker, outside the factory a couple of weeks ago but the management denied the allegations.
