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New Market clashes leave another dead

Three cases filed


Published : 21 Apr 2022 10:06 PM | Updated : 21 Apr 2022 10:06 PM

Three separate cases were filed over the series of clashes between Dhaka College students and shopkeepers that left two persons dead.

New Market Police Station OC SM Kaiyum confirmed that traders, employees and students were made accused in the cases.

SI Mehedi Hasan and inspector Yamin Kabir filed two cases with the New Market police station while the third case was filed by deceased Nahid's uncle Md Sayeed.

Some 200-300 unnamed people were made accused in one case where 600-700 students were also made accused.

Another 200-300 were made accused in the second one filed under Explosives Act and some 100-150 persons were made accused in the third case.

Later in the day, a Dhaka Court fixed June 7 for submitting the probe reports in two cases.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shuvra Chakrabarty accepted the statement and fixed the date.

Of the deceased, Mursalin, 24, who worked at a clothing store in New Market, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH)on Thursday.

On Tuesday night, 18-year-old Nahid Hasan, a worker of courier service in Elephant Road area, succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at the DMCH.

More than 50 people, including journalists and students, were injured as the students of Dhaka College clashed with the traders of New Market at the Nilkhet intersection from Monday midnight to Tuesday whole day.

As the situation intensified, a meeting was held between teachers and students of Dhaka College and members of New Market Traders Association at Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), popularly known as Science Laboratory, in the city's New Elephant Road area on Wednesday night.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, officials of the Education Ministry and members of Bangladesh Shop Owners Association were present at the meeting.

At the meeting, the students placed a 10-point demand, asking identification and punishment of those who attacked the students.

As the traders association accepted the demands, it was declared during a press briefing following the discussion that the New Market shops will reopen from Thursday as usual.

Shops in and around the New Market in capital Dhaka have started reopening on Thursday morning after traders reached a broad agreement with Dhaka College students following deadly clashes that left businesses closed for two days.

The consensus to reopen businesses came at a nearly four- hour- long meeting between traders and students from Wednesday midnight.

Around 10am, three out of the four entrances to the New Market, were opened.

Shops in the New Market area have incurred losses due to the closure for two days amid the Eid-ul-Fitr shopping season after violence erupted on Tuesday.