Meanwhile, Brahmanbaria Additional Superintendent of Police Rais Uddin has been transferred, a Police Headquarters notification said yesterday.
With him, a total of 20 police officials, including the additional SP, assistant SPs and officers-in-charge in the district, have been transferred so far after the Hefajat mayhem.
At least 15 people were killed in clashes between law enforcers and Hefajat men in Brahmanbaria on March 26-27.
A total of 56 cases have been filed with different police stations in the district against 39,000 people, including 414 named, over the Hefajat mayhem.
On March 26, Hefajat activists vandalised and torched Brahmanbaria Railway Station, halting Dhaka s railway links with Chattogram and Sylhet. The demonstrators set fire to the control panel of the station and torched seven rooms.
Ishtiaq joined the police station in 2014 and was promoted as an inspector on December, 2019.
His transfer comes one and half month after Hefajat-e-Islam activists carried out violence in Brahmanbaria on March 26 to March 28 centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
Earlier on April 26, Md Abdur Rahim, officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station was transferred and attached to Rangpur Range Police.
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Brahmanbaria violence: Sarail OC transferred
Police administration has taken action against officer-in-charge of Sarai Police Station on charge of negligence in duty during Hefazat’s violence in Brahmanbaria on March 27.
Brahmanbaria district police’s additional superintendent of police Rois Uddin confirmed the matter.
The district police’s special branch assistant superintendent of police Alauddin Chowdhury, Sadar Model Police Station Abdur Rahim and Khatihata highway Police Station OC Gazi Shakhawat Hossain have been transferred over the same incident.
On March 27, at least five people were killed and around 50 others, including 25 cops, injured in clashes between members of law enforcement agencies and locals during Hefazat’s demonstrations at Nandanpur in Sadar upazila.
Brahmanbaria Mayhem: 10 Khelafat leaders, 9 more Hefazat men held
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6th May, 2021 09:21:33
Ten top leaders of Khelafat Majlish were arrested in the past 24 hours until Thursday morning in connection with the clashes and vandalism carried out by Hefazat-e-Islam men in Brahmanbaria last month.
Md Abu Taher, President of Sarail Upazila Khelafat Majlish confessed to his involvement in Brahmanbaria mayhem, saying it was a part of a conspiracy to oust the government from power, said police.
Besides, nine more Hefazat activists were arrested.
So far, 55 cases have been filed and 434 people arrested over the violence, said a press release of Brahmanbaria police.
Four Hefajat leaders on police remand
Mufti Harun Izhar Star Report Star Report
Four Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were placed on remand yesterday in seven cases filed with police stations in the capital and Chattogram over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka and Chattogram.
The leaders are: Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary of Hefajat s now dissolved committee; Maulana Jubair Ahmed, former vice-president of its Dhaka city unit, and Maulana Jalaluddin Ahmed, former assistant general secretary, and Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the dissolved central committee.
Azizul was put on remand for seven days in two cases filed with the capital s Paltan Police Station over March 26 violence centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while Jubair was in a six-day remand in two cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in D