Bangladesh News

Army personnel arrested two Awami League-backed ward commissioners of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and another BNP-backed union parishad chairman in the district yesterday.
The arrestees are Mohammad Hossain Hiron, CCC commissioner of Pahartali ward, Jahar Lal Hazari, commissioner of Anderkilla ward, and Delwar Hossain Delu, chairman of Korerhat union parishad of Mirersarai upazila in Chittagong.

Sources said the troops arrested Hiron, who is accused in a number of criminal cases, at his Ambagan home in Pahartali around 12:15pm yesterday. Hazari was arrested around 12:30am yesterday at his Hazarigoli home.

During another raid, the army personnel captured Korerhat Union Parishad Chairman Delu, who had served two years as the president of Mirersarai upazila BNP, at his village home in Korerhat around 12:45am yesterday. Delu was accused in a number of cases including extortion and encroachment of land, sources said.

Hazari was handed over to Chittagong police an hour after his arrest. He was produced before the Court of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Moksedur Rahman around 3:00pm yesterday. The court sent him to jail rejecting his bail petition.

Sources said the raids were carried out as part of a crackdown on “corrupt people and godfathers of criminals” across the country.

On Sunday, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) also arrested another union parishad chairman Abu Jafar at his village Goschi of Bagowan union and recovered a pistol and bullets.