The Detective Branch of police on Sunday arrested Jatiyatabadi Chhatra
Dal general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib at Shantinagar in the city.
The activists of Chhatra Dal, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed
student organisation, protested against the arrest, while five vehicles
were set on fire in the city.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner (media and public
relation) Masudur Rahman said that the detectives picked up Habibur at
about 3:00pm. He, however, could not say in which case Habibur was
arrested.
Habibur was taken to Detective Branch office at Minto Road.
The detectives had also raided the Habibur’s house at Bashabo in the city on November 14.
Chhatra Dal activists took to the street immediately after the arrest.
They brought out processions at places protesting against the arrest.
A bus of Unique Paribahan was set on fire at Fakirapul at about 3:30pm.
A Dhaka Paribahan bus was set on fire near the National Press Club at about 5:00pm.
Unidentified youths set a covered van on fire at Shantinagar at about 5:00pm.
Another bus was set on fire at Rampura at about 5:30pm.
A taxi was set on fire at Fakirapul in the evening.
Fire Service and Civil Defence control room officer Kazi Nuruzzaman told
New Age that they recorded that five vehicles were set on fire in the
capital till 8:00pm.
New Age correspondent in Narsingdi reported that the police arrested
three Chhbatra Dal leaders in Naringdi town on Saturday night.
New Age correspondent in Khulna reported that the police arrested at
least eight leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra
Shibir at places of Paikgacha and Digholia upazilas on early Sunday
Earlier, Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Sarafat Ali Shapu and
organising secretary Shafiul Bari Babu were arrested at Banglamotor in
the city on November 14. They were also remanded in police custody for
10 days for interrogation in a case filed for violence during a general
strike enforced by the BNP-led alliance in March. (source)