Six people, including four jailers of Shariatpur district jail, sustained injuries in a clash with locals over a trifling matter on Friday night.
They are Siddiqur Rahman Bepari, commissioner of Ward 5 under Shariatpur municipality, Majibur Rahman Talukder, and four jailers – Sujauddaulah, Shah Alam, Yakub Ali Mollah and Gias Uddin. Sujauddaulah is the chief jailer of the jail.
Of the six, Siddiqur, Majibur and Sujauddaulah were sent to Dhaka for treatment and the others were admitted to Shariatpur Sadar Hospital.
Locals said the clash broke out after an altercation among two local men – Shafiq Kotwal and Masud – and two jailers – Sujauddaulah and Yakub – when the latter went to have tea near the jail’s entrance after iftar.
More jailers arrived on the scene when the clash turned violent after a while. Police later came and calmed the two groups.
Shariatpur district jail’s Jailer Md Tariqul Islam filed a case with Palang police station against some 35 people, 10 of whom were named, yesterday morning.
Commissioner Siddiqur said he and several others went to mediate between the two groups but were injured by jailers. “Now the jailers want to harass us, which is why they named me and the others in the case.”
Rabeya Begum, wife of injured Majibur, also went to the police station to file a case but police did not take it, saying the incident was false.
But Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Palang Model police station, said the case was not recorded as the initial inquiry proved that the incident was not true.
“The other case will be probed,” he said.
