A court in Joypurhat on Wednesday, November 11, ordered 19 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliated wings into jail custody after police charged them under the Special Powers Act over an alleged sabotage plot in Akkelpur upazila.
Judge Jannatul Ferdous of the Akkelpur Cognizance Court under the Joypurhat Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court rejected bail petitions and sent the 19 accused to jail following a noon hearing.
Police arrested the group during a raid around 10 p.m. Tuesday at a house in Paschim Biharpur neighborhood of Akkelpur town. Akkelpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mehedi Masud said officers acted on a tip about planned sabotage, arresting the 19 people and seizing nine motorcycles and eight mobile phones before booking them under Section 15(3) of the Special Powers Act.
According to the case statement, those detained were allegedly plotting road blockades, vehicle vandalism, and public disorder, while 20 to 25 others fled when police arrived. Among those detained are Akkelpur municipal Awami League president Kazi Abdur Rahman Sanju, municipal Jubo League general secretary Nasimuzzaman Rocket, and municipal Swechchhasebak League joint general secretary Shamim Hossain, alongside a school headteacher and a college computer operator and security guard.
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