A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday sent 388 general Ansar members to jail in four cases over the clash between Ansar and students on Sunday night in front of the country鈥檚 administrative hub secretariat and another case on Friday鈥檚 protest of Ansar members in Airport area on Friday.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Mossaraf Hossain passed the order as police produced them before the court, Paltan police station general recording officer Md Shah Alam confirmed.
Of the jailed, 189 were accused in the Shahbagh police station case, 98 in the Ramna police station case, 95 in the Paltan police station case and six in the case filed with Airport police station, according to Shah Alam.
A total of 437 named and 11,100 unnamed people were made accused in four cases over the Sunday night and Friday鈥檚 incident, according to four police stations officers-in-charge.
Paltan Ramna and Shahbagh police stations cases were filed over Sunday night鈥檚 incident and another was on Friday鈥檚 incident.聽聽
About 3,000-4,000 unidentified people were made accused in a case filed with paltan police station, while 2,000-3,000 unidentified people were made accused in the both cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations, they said.聽
Besides, 1,000-1,100 unidentified people were made accused in the case filed with Airport police station over the Friday鈥檚 protest of Ansar members in the area.
At the Paltan police station, the case was filed by the police station sub-inspector Md Sazzad Hossain Bhuiyan against 4,114 people, including 114 named and about 4,000 unnamed, according to the case statement.
In the clash, at least 34 students, six Ansar members were injured.
Bangla daily Prothom Alo鈥簊 Dhaka University correspondent Asif Howlader was brutally kicked with boot and beaten with belt by Ansar members near the secretariat at around 9:30pm on Sunday, the newspaper reported.
Inter-Services Public Relations office in a release on Monday claimed that at least six army personnel were injured and one of them now in critical condition.
About 10,000 Ansar members cordoned off the secretariat where seven advisers to the interim government and high officials in the public administrations, among others, were confined at that time, said ISPR, adding that they were rescued with the help of Army.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital director Brigadier General Md Asaduzzaman said that two out of the five critically injured required neurosurgery.
鈥極ne was taken to the operation theatre and another would be taken later,鈥� he added.
While talking to reporters at the DMCH, law adviser Asif Nazrul alleged that the protesters had in disguise with other agenda in the name of Ansar鈥檚 demand.聽
On Monday, the government has reshuffled 19 senior officials, including nine deputy director general and 10 directors in the Ansar force.
Home ministry issued two separate notifications in this regard.
Of the nine deputy director generals, Nurul Hasan Faridi was transferred to the Khulna Range from Gazipur, Saifullah Rasel to the headquarters of the Ansar and Village Defence Party (operations) from Chittagong Range, Shah Ahmad Fazle Rabbi to the Rajshahi Range from Khulna Range, Mohammad Abdul Awal to the Mymensingh Range from Sylhet Range, Kamrun Nahar to Gazipur from聽 Rajshahi Range, Md Fakhrul Alam to the Barisal Range from Dhaka, Md Saifur Rahman to the Chittagong Range from Mymensigh, Ashraful Alam to the Dhaka Range from Barisal Range, and Md Ziaul Hasan to the Sylhet Range from Dhaka Range.
Of the ten directors, Mohammad Amin Uddin was moved to Khagrachari; Md Ahsan Ullah to Thakurgaon; Mohammad Saifuzzaman to the director of integration at headquarters, Syed Iftikhar Ali to the 35 Ansar Battalion in Rangamati Kaptai Shilchari, Muhammad Nur e Alam Siddiqui as director operations at headquarters, Taskin Ara to the Ansar and VDP Academy in Safipur, Sarwar Jahan Chowdhury to Barisal Range,
Jahanara Akhtar to Safipur, Fatema-tuz-Zohra to the director of VDP-Training at headquarters, and Munmun Sultana to the director of administration at headquarters.
According to officials, about one lakh general Ansar members were enlisted in the force and 70,000 of them are now active. About 55,000 Ansar members are posted in various organisations at this moment.