4 Sylhet AL, Jubo League leaders held in Kolkata for 'assaulting' Meghalaya truck driver
The arrests were related to charges filed last month at Meghalaya’s Dawki police station
Indian police have arrested four leaders of the Sylhet Awami League (AL) and Jubo League from Kolkata city in a case filed over an alleged assault of a truck driver in the West Jaintia Hills district of the Meghalaya state.
Police from the Dawki station of Meghalaya arrested them on Sunday (8 December) from a flat in the New Town area of Kolkata, reports Prothom Alo.
The arrested AL leaders are Nasir Uddin Khan, the general secretary of Sylhet District AL and former chairman of the district council, Sylhet Metropolitan Jubo League President Alam Khan (Mukti), Vice-President Abdul Latif (Ripon), and member Elias Hossain (Jewel).
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AL Central Organising Secretary Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, who is currently in India, confirmed the arrest of the four leaders to Prothom Alo last night (9 December).
Nadel, however, claimed the arrests were over illegal entry.
"They have been charged with illegal entry at the Dawki station, where a case was filed against them," he said.
Meghalaya-based newspaper The Shillong Times reported that the four arrested individuals were brought from Kolkata to Jowai, the main city in the West Jaintia Hills district, on Sunday night.
They are currently under police custody for interrogation related to the charges of assaulting a truck driver, reports the newspaper.
Requesting not to be named, a leader of the Sylhet Swecchasebak League told Prothom Alo that the four leaders fled from Sylhet to Shillong after 5 August, when the AL government was toppled by a mass uprising led by students.
He said that upon their arrival, the four AL leaders had informed the local police of their presence.
He also claimed the allegations of assaulting the truck driver were not true.
