Former Ctg JCD leader shot in leg after being picked up by police

A former leader Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal, the student wing of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was allegedly shot in the leg by the police after picking him up from in Chattogram city’s Bayezid area early Thursday.

The injured is Md Saiful Islam, 34, a former assistant general secretary of Chattogram city unit of JCD, and a resident of Burma Colony at Bayezid area.

The police, however, claimed that Saiful received bullet in the leg during a ‘gunfight’ in the port city early Thursday while three cops were also injured.

Chattogram city unit JCD convener Md Saiful Islam told New Age that victim Saiful was picked up by Bayezid police from Bayezid area and shot in the leg at Bayezid Link Road area.

Saiful's brother Md Shahin told New Age that a police source namely Akash called Saiful at about 9.48pm on Wednesday and asked him to meet with him.

‘When he went to meet with Akash at Oxygen area, police picked up him from there,’ he alleged.

Md Kamruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Bayezid Bostami police station, talking to New Age, claimed that Saiful and his gang members opened fire targeting police at Bayezid Link Road area at about 1:40am. Police also opened fire in retaliation and later they arrested Saiful from the spot, he said and claimed that they seized one firearm and six rounds of cartridges from the spot.

Saiful received bullet injuries and three cops were injured during the ‘gunfight’, the OC claimed.

He said that arrested Saiful, accused in 18 cases, was undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital.

Md Mokhlesur Rahman, deputy commissioner (north) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, however, told New Age that there was no pending warrant of arrest against Saiful Islam now.

He said that two cases were filed against Saiful Islam on Thursday – one for assaulting the police and the other for possessing firearm and bullets.

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