State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Anindya Islam Amit has called for social boycotts of those who try to create unrest and division in the country using religion. He said if anyone tries to divide Bangladesh through cheap politics using religion, a collective resistance will be built against it.
Mohammad Rayhan has posted a video of himself firing a pistol on his Facebook story about five and a half hours after a Jubo Dal activist was shot dead in public in Raozan, Chattogram. Police said Rayhan is known as a follower of Sazzad Hossain, a fugitive criminal based abroad.
Water Resources Minister and Lakshmipur-3 MP Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie has questioned the opposition's road march and long march programmes just six months after the government took office. He said the government does not engage in photo session politics or Photoshop; it wants to work in reality.
A businessman in Chattogram's Bayezid Bostami area has received an extortion demand of Tk 20 lakh via WhatsApp, along with threats to kill his son, daughter and grandson. The threats were made from a foreign WhatsApp number by an individual identifying himself as Rayhan, an associate of fugitive top criminal Sazzad Ali, also known as Boro Sazzad, the businessman alleged.
Police personnel and a government vehicle came under attack in Chattogram's Khulshi area, allegedly by supporters of Wakil Hossain, also known as Boga, a former leader of the Swecchasebak Dal. At least eight police officers, including Khulshi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Rahim, were injured in the attack. The incident occurred around 4am on Friday near the Wireless Mor and Pahartali areas.
A local Jubo Dal leader, Fazlul Haque Roman, has been accused of calling a medicine trader to his office and torturing him for about six hours over an extortion demand in Sreepur, Gazipur. The victim's wife was also allegedly humiliated when she went to rescue her husband. The accused Jubo Dal leader has been on the run since the incident.