News No.57/2016: Thursday, July 14,
2016
AN UPDF activist, Abinash Chakma
alias Phodangtang, was arrested on 10 July ‘after an encounter with terrorists’,
claimed the police in Dighinala.
However the UPDF has refuted the
claim, saying, the so-called encounter was fake, and that Abinash was arrested
by intelligence personnel in Chittagong on 6 July.
‘Abinash went to Chittagong on 6
July to take medical treatment and meet a friend,’ a UPDF statement said,
adding he had taken Taka 20 thousand from his wife Deepa Chakma for the purpose
before he set out.
According to the statement, Abinash
had come in contact with a Bengali friend by chance through mobile phone.
‘He often talked to his friend into
the phone, but judging from the subsequent events I think “the friend” was
actually an intelligent personnel,’ Abinash’s colleague Sanjoy told chtnews.com.
He said the encounter was a fake.
‘The army just went up to a hill near Sadhana Tila Bana Vihara (Buddhist
temple) and then fired several rounds of gunshots into the air. Then they
called the police there and handed Abinash over to them,’ he continued.
Abinash was taken to Dighianala
police station, and a false case was lodged against him under Arms and
Explosives Act.
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