BCL leader held for assaulting cop in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, June 07 (UNB): Police arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in a case over assaulting a policeman in Puthia upazia of Rajshahi on Monday.

The arrestee was Naeem Hasan, general secretary of BCL ward-2 Baneshwar union and ex-vice president of Baneshwar Government College BCL unit.

The injured policeman, Atiqur Rahman, works at Rajshahi district police.

Suhrawardy Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Puthia police station, said an easy-bike hit a human hauler carrying Naeem's father Monday afternoon while he was taking mangoes to Baneshwar College ground, leaving him injured.