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Dhaka: So far there have been 13 cases in nine police stations for setting fire to 10 buses and causing violence in the capital. The police have arrested 30 people in these cases.
Police said a total of more than 500 people have been charged in 13 cases at nine police stations for the bus fire. Among the defendants in these cases is BNP-nominated mayoral candidate Ishraq Hossain, who lost the Dhaka South City Corporation elections. Furthermore, most of the other defendants are leaders and activists of the BNP and its affiliates.
On Friday (November 13), the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media and Public Relations. Walid Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews.
He said that so far the police have filed nine cases at Motijheel, Paltan, Shahbagh, Bangshal, Bhatara, Kalabagan, Uttara East, Turag and Bimanbandar police stations. 30 people have been arrested in these cases. The police are working on the ground to arrest the rest of the accused.
So far, one person has been arrested in two cases at Motijheel Police Station, six in two cases at Shahbagh Police Station, nine in two cases at Paltan Police Station, two at Bangshal Police Station and two at Police Station of Kalabagan.
The Officer-in-Charge (CO) of the Paltan Police Station, Abu Bakar Siddiqui, told banglanews that 58 people have been charged in two cases filed at the Paltan Police Station. 11 of them have been arrested.
Bangshal OC Police said. Shaheen Fakir said two defendants were arrested in a bus fire case. 56 people have been charged in this case.
Shahbagh OC Mohammad Mamun Aur Rashid Police Station said 64 people have been charged in the two cases. Six of them have been arrested.
Bhatara OC Moktaruzzaman Police Station said a case had been brought against 95 people in connection with the bus fire. No arrests have been made as of yet.
OC BM Farman Ali Airport Police Station said a case has been brought against 26 people in connection with the bus fire. No arrests have been made yet. However, the arrest operation is underway.
Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said the eleventh parliamentary parliamentary election was held last Thursday. There was no political activity outside of this. There have been several explosive cocktails in the constituency. In addition, 10 buses have caught fire in different parts of the capital.
He said that after analyzing the surrounding situation, it appears that this incident is similar to the 2015 arson attack. I am analyzing the various signals found in the bus fire with the above signals. We are trying to identify and arrest those involved in this incident.
Monirul Islam said the BNP had also held several processions at the places where buses were set on fire in the capital during the by-elections in Dhaka-17. The procession and the arson are tied in the same thread. The investigation is ongoing. We will let you know the details if we can go a little further.
Earlier on Thursday (November 12), 10 buses were set on fire at nine locations in the capital, including Shahbagh, Press Club, Gulistan, Motijheel, Nayabazar, Bhatara, Shahjahanpur and the airport. However, no casualties were reported.
According to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Crime Command and Control Center, a fire broke out in 15 government vehicles parked in the tax area on the north side of the BNP party office at the Paltan police station at 12: 05 pm on Thursday. Then at 1 pm on the Agrani Bank staff bus in front of the Madhumita Cinema Hall of Motijheel Police Station, at 1:25 am in the current Victor Classic Paribahan in front of the Ramna Hotel, at 1:30 pm in Dewan Paribahan in front of the Aziz Super Market in Shahbag, at 2:10 pm on the north side of the Bangladesh Secretariat. Dishari’s transport caught fire at 2.25pm. Also, Jainpuri Paribahan was set on fire in Paltan Police Station parking lot at 2.45pm, a double-decker BRTC bus adjacent to Motijheel Police Station Pubali gas pump at 3pm, Victor Classic Paribahan in the Coca-Cola intersection of the Bhatara and Azampur police station in Uttara at night.
Law enforcement agencies suspect that an opposition party has set buses on fire in different parts of the capital at the same time in an attempt to sabotage the parliamentary elections in the Dhaka-17 constituency. It is being investigated whether the incidents of cocktail explosions in two places in the constituency and the incidents of setting fire to public transport in different places in the capital during the vote are the same.
Bangladesh time: 1904 hours, November 13, 2020
SJA / RB /
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