Osmaninagar Correspondent:
In Osmaninagar, it has been reported that the relatives of the upazila Awami League legal affairs secretary, Advocate Sajjadur Rahman, were abducted from the police. The incident took place at around 11:30 pm on Sunday at Sajjadur Rahman's house in Rautkhai village of Usmanpur union of the upazila.
It is learnt that at night, a team led by Osmaninagar Police Station SI Bishnu Pad Roy searched Sajjadur Rahman's house to arrest the accused named in the complaint and tried to bring him to the police station, but the people of the area, including the woman of the house, gathered and blocked them. At one stage, Sajjadur Rahman's people scuffled with the police and snatched him away.
Maulana Dilal Ahmed, the plaintiff in the case, said, "While trying to arrest the accused in the case of an attack on me, the police arrested Sajjadur Rahman from the courtyard of the house. At that time, the women of the house chased him and snatched him from the police."
Advocate Sajjadur Rahman said, "I live in Sylhet. I heard that two policemen and some people in plain clothes went to my house and arrested my brother, thinking he was me. When he said he was not Sajjad, the police released him."
Osmaninagar Police Station SI Bishnu Pad Roy said, "We are accused in a criminal case! When we went to Rautkhai village to arrest a man named Sajjadur Rahman, people including his wife attacked us and kidnapped him."
