News No. 51/2018 : April 24, 2018, Tuesday
THE army on Monday searched six houses, two of
them belonging to two school teachers, and arrested a 16-year-old school boy in
Kripapur village under Kobakhali Union in Dighinala Upazila of Khagrachari
district.
The soldiers from Dighinala cantonment conducted
the searches that lasted several hours.
They at first surrounded the village at 1:30
p.m. and then using a loud speaker asked the ‘terrorists’ to come out.
As no terrorists came out, the army fired four
rounds of blank shots before proceeding to search the houses.
They turned the houses upside down, throwing
things around, but found neither any terrorist nor any incriminating materials.
Later the soldiers took the inmates of the
houses, including the local UP member Supon Chakma and the head of the village
(Karbari) Ashwini Kumar Chakma, into their custody.
The army arrested Supriyo Chakma, 16, a student
of class ten of Chongrachari High School and son of Nigira Mohan Chakma of
Moner Manush village in Merung Union, Dighinala.
The houses searched belong to Manek Ranjan
Chakma, 55, son of late Buddhi Chandra Chakma; Chokko Chakma, 35; Prottoy
Chakma, 42, son of late Ornandra Chakma; Kamini Ranjan Chakma, 48, son of late
Ornanda Chakma; Jagadish Chakma, 45, and Kiron Bikash Chakma, 34.
Of them, the latter two are teachers of
Shantipur High School.
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