ATTACK ON JOURNALIST: Arrest of criminals demanded
The New Age | Jan 12, 2009
Staff Correspondent . Sylhet
Local journalists on Sunday demanded immediate arrest of the criminals responsible for the attack on Sangram Singh, senior staff reporter of the Sylhet bureau of national Bangla daily Jugantor.
They also demanded removal of the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner and officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police station for their failure to arrest the criminals.
The journalists brought out a procession from Sylhet Press Club at about 1:00pm protesting at the attack on the journalist and demanding arrest of the attackers.
They paraded main roads in the city and later held a rally on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city.
At the rally, the newsmen, working with different national dailies and news agencies, demanded immediate withdrawal of SMP commissioner Syed Taufiq Uddin and officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police station Syeduzzaman.
Chaired by former general secretary of Sylhet Press Club, Mahiuddin Shiru, also divisional correspondent of News Today, the rally was addressed, among others, by Salam Masrur of Janakantha, AFM Sayeed of Banglabazar Patrika, Mohammed Mohsin of United News of Bangladesh, Moniruzzaman Monir of New Age, Rezwan Ahmed of Jugantor, Fakhrul Islam of Ittefaq, Abdul Mukith of Inqilab, Faysal Ahmed Bablu and Mukith Rahmani of Shomokal.
Speakers at the rally also accused the SMP commissioner and OC of negligence in nabbing the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, who reportedly attacked Sangram Singh, also Sylhet correspondent of ETV, saying that the attackers were roaming in the city.
The Sylhet Press Club authorities at an emergency meeting on Sunday also blamed the police administration for not to arrest the criminals.
Some JCD activists allegedly attacked Sangram Singh Friday night at Chalibandar in the city, leaving him seriously injured. A case was filed with the Kotwali police station in this connection accusing four JCD activists.
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