An Awami League leader was beaten after being tied to an electric pole at Puthia upazila in Rajshahi on Saturday.
The victim is Md Aliuzzaman Montu, president of Baneshwar union AL and uncle to former state minister for rural development and cooperatives Abdul Wadud Dara.
Local people said that Montu, known as the 鈥楶uthia-Durgapur鈥檚 education ministry鈥� for his involvement in recruitment business, went into hiding following the ouster of the Awami League-led autocratic government amid the student-led mass uprising on August 05.
Sheikh Abdul Hanif, brother of former lawmaker Abdul Wadud, said that his uncle Montu had returned to the village on Thursday night.
He said that activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party held Montu when he went to drink tea at a nearby tea stall at Maipara Bazar at 10:00am on Saturday.
Montu, also a former head teacher of Biraldaha Girls鈥� High School, told 抖阴精品 at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital that a group of six BNP activists including Mithun, Ahsan, Jewel, and Simanta tied him to an electric pole and beat him mercilessly with iron rods, hammers.
Denying the allegation, Mithun, however, claimed that local people beat Montu as he took money from over two hundred job seekers but did not give them any jobs.
Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Puthia police station, told 抖阴精品 that they heard that Montu was beaten but were not sure who beat him.
