COMILLA, Mar 10 (UNB): Two cases were filed against some 97 BNP-Jamaat activists in connection with torching of vehicles in Comilla city and Burichang upazila of the district Tuesday.
A case was filed against 17 identified and 30 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men with Kotwali Model thana for torching three vehicles and vandalising 20-25 others in the city Monday evening. Badal, sub-inspector of the thana, filed the case.
Khorshed Alam, officer-in-charge of the thana, said a group of 25-30 miscreants, carrying sticks, brought out a procession at Ramghat in the name of celebrating the victory of Bangladesh Cricket Team over England in the World Cup Monday evening.
All of a sudden, they started vandalising vehicles and hurling petrol bombs.
Two auto-rickshaws were torched and 20-25 others damaged during the mayhem.
At the same time, another group of miscreants set fire to a private car by hurling a petrol bomb at it in Racecourse area.
In another incident, three covered vans were torched by miscreants at Sayedpur on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Burichang upazila around 11:30 pm on Monday.
Nasir Uddin, sub-inspector (SI) of Burichang thana, filed a case against 30 identified and 20 unidentified BNP-Jamaat men.
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FE Team | Published: March 11, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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