A case against 344 members of A-League in connection with BNP office vandalism, looting, arson and bomb blasts.

HM Nasir Uddin Jhalkathi Correspondent: A case has been filed in the name of 344 members of the A-League, mentioning the names of 44 people on the charges of attack, vandalism, looting, arson and bomb blast at BNP office in Rajapur Upazila of Jhalkathi.

Upazila BNP General Secretary Nasim Uddin Akon filed this case as the plaintiff on Thursday (August 29) night. The main accused in the case is the recently removed upazila chairman Milon Mahmud Bachchu along with the president of the upazila Awami League Ed. Khairul Alam Sarfraz, general secretary Zia Hyder Khan Liton and science and technology affairs secretary of district A-League, former upazila chairman Principal Moniuzzaman, along with Awami League and organizational organizations have 44 people from upazila, union and ward levels. It also includes the names of Tutul, executive member of Rajapur Press Club, member of Galua Union Parishad, and Mahmud Hasan, member of Rajapur Press Club, ambassador of former MP BH Harun, marine fisheries officer. Another 200-300 people have been accused as anonymous in this case.

It is mentioned in the case that on May 24, 2022, when the leaders and activists started coming to the party office in the upazila BNP conference, the accused attacked with various types of weapons including iron rod, hawkstick, GI pipe, ramada, Chinese ax, and sledgehammer and detonated bombs. The party office was set on fire with petrol. Two or three rounds of blank bullets were fired with the intention of killing with a pistol. It caused a loss of about three lakh rupees along with furniture and other goods. Apart from this, two lakh thirty thousand rupees in the steel cupboard of the office and valuable office chairs, computers, TV, file cabinets and other furniture worth two lakh rupees can be taken.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Rajapur Police Station. Ataur Rahman said that raids were conducted at several places to arrest the accused, but no one could be arrested. However, efforts to arrest the absconding accused are continuing.