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News No. 29/2014,
Friday, June 13, 2014
THE police have
arrested five Jummas including 3 wounded women who are undergoing medical
treatment in Khagrachari Sadar Hospital.
Pradeep Chandra
Chakma, 60, and Shneha Ranjan Chakma, 58, were arrested at 3pm today when they
went to Khagrachari Sadar Hospital to see their wounded wives.
Both of them have been
sent to Khagrachari jail, while their wives, Maya Rani Chakma and Phulo Rani
Chakma, remain under arrest at the hospital, with police standing guard at
their bed sides.
This is the first
arrest since the BGB Subeder Golam Rashul filed a criminal case against 250
Jummas following an attack on the protesting Jummas in Babuchara on 11 June.
The attack had left 18
Jummas, mostly women, injured, with many of them hurt badly enough to require
hospitalization.
The police also
arrested another woman – Gopa Chakma, (48) who is undergoing treatment in
Khagrachari hospital.
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