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AL MP scuffles with police in Ctg

Saturday, 13 June 2009


CHITTAGONG, June 12 (bdnews24.com): Member of Parliament of Awami League (AL) MA Latif scuffled with the police at the Agrabad Water Transport Coordination Cell office Friday.
When the MP from Chittagong-10 constituency, accompanied by several hundred followers, attempted entering the WTCC office, the duty police stopped them and an altercation ensued. Latif sustained minor injuries.
Rebuffed by the police, the MP manhandled both Nirmalendu Bikash Chakravarti, assistant police commissioner, Double Mooring zone, and officer-in-charge of the local police station AKM Manjurul Haque, police said.
The MP's men are still agitating in the vicinity of the WTCC. A police contingent has also been posted there.
Earlier, Latif had been accused of humiliating another two senior police officers at Patenga on one occasion and misbehaving with another police officer on a Biman flight another time.