Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising.
Bishwanathpur police station officer-in-charge Md Rubel Mia said that sub-inspector of the police station, Jamal Uddin, filed the case on Sunday under the Special Power Act, accusing them of the crimes.
The plaintiff in his written statement complained that the attackers looted and damaged assets of the police station worth about Tk 1 crore.
He stated that about 2,500 people started a procession from the Basiya Bridge and surrounding areas adjacent to the Bishwanathpur police station in that afternoon after hearing the news of the fall of the fascist government and they started to move towards the police station.
He said that leaders and activists of the local Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and their affiliated organisations tried to protect the police station by forming a human shield at the main gate of the police station and tried to prevent the processionists.
But, the miscreants armed with locally made sharp weapons broke through the main gate of the police station at around 5:00pm on the day and started to vandalise the station, set government vehicles and tools on fire and to loot the firearms and ammunition, the plaintiff stated.
He claimed that besides damaging different rooms, furniture, computers and other devices, two jeeps and a van, 10 motorcycles of the police station and 12 personal motorcycles of its forces, the attackers also injured nine police personnel, including one sub-inspector and one assistant sub-inspector and looted arms and ammunition including 4 shotguns, 55 bullets and 10 teargas shells.
The investigation officer, Nur Mia, also a sub-inspector, told 抖阴精品 on Wednesday afternoon that the identities of the accused in the case are yet to be ascertained.
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