Indian police have arrested four leaders of the Sylhet Awami League (AL) and Jubo League from Kolkata metropolis in a case filed over an alleged assault of a truck driver within the West Jaintia Hills district of the Meghalaya insist.
Police from the Dawki situation of Meghalaya arrested them on Sunday (8 December) from a flat within the New Metropolis dwelling of Kolkata, experiences Prothom Alo.
The arrested AL leaders are Nasir Uddin Khan, the frequent secretary of Sylhet District AL and historical chairman of the district council, Sylhet Metropolitan Jubo League President Alam Khan (Mukti), Vice-President Abdul Latif (Ripon), and member Elias Hossain (Jewel).
AL Central Organising Secretary Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, who is within the period in-between in India, confirmed the arrest of the four leaders to Prothom Alo final night time (9 December).
Nadel, nonetheless, claimed the arrests had been over unlawful entry.
“They had been charged with unlawful entry on the Dawki situation, the build a case modified into as soon as filed towards them,” he acknowledged.
Meghalaya-primarily based fully mostly newspaper The Shillong Times reported that the four arrested folks had been brought from Kolkata to Jowai, the main metropolis within the West Jaintia Hills district, on Sunday night time.
They’re within the period in-between under police custody for interrogation associated to the prices of assaulting a truck driver, experiences the newspaper.
Asking for no longer to be named, a major of the Sylhet Swecchasebak League told Prothom Alo that the four leaders fled from Sylhet to Shillong after 5 August, when the AL authorities modified into as soon as toppled by a mass rebellion led by college students.
He acknowledged that upon their arrival, the four AL leaders had told the native police of their presence.
He also claimed the allegations of assaulting the truck driver had been no longer correct.
