Police absent on the spot, still injured!

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As many as 401 leaders and activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were implicated in a case filed after an attack on BNP candidate for Munshiganj-1 Shah Moazzem Hossain’s motorcade on Saturday.

However, the police registered the case for showing it as an incident of attack on the law enforcement.

Witnesses and local BNP leaders said no policeman was not present during the occurence.

Shah Moazzem’s motorcade came under attack by some unidentified men in Kuchiamora area in Sirajdikhan upazila on Saturday.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Sirajdikhan police station Farid Uddin then said none was injured in the incident.

On Monday, he claimed that five policemen including sub-inspector Sheikh Ashraful  and Mashiqur Rahman got injured in the incident.

The police filed the case on Sunday accusing the BNP men of injuring the policemen.

SI Ashraful named 251 BNP men including upazila secretary general Awlad Hossain and implicated 100-150 unnamed men in the case.

Asked about contradictory statement about the police being attacked, OC Farid Uddin said Saturday’s comment was his immediate response.

He claimed that he later knew that five police men were injured as brickbat was thrown at them and took primary treatment at upazila health complex.

However, witnesses said the attackers left the scene 15 minutes after the attack was carried out around 4:30pm.

On hearing, the police personnel reached the spot around an hour later.

Sirajdikhan upazila BNP chairmen Abdul Kuddus, who was at Shah Moazzem’s entourage, confidently said no policeman was present during the attack.

“The police didn’t come (during the attack) although we called them. How can they be injured? We have seen 5-7 policemen reached the spot around 7:00pm when we started for Dhaka,” he said. 

Khondokar Ashek Mahmud, a physician at Sirajdikhan upazila health complex, recalled that five policemen came to the facility to take treatment. However, there were no such injury marks on their bodies.

“I heard they were injured by brickbat,” he added.

Superintendent of Munshiganj police Zaidul Alam Fuad, however, said the policemen might get injured during the chaos.

He said the police would not harass any innocent person.