A case has been launched against 212 people with Kotwali police station on charge of attack on a mobile court in the port city.
Jamal Uddin, office assistant of Chittagong revenue department, lodged the lawsuit on Tuesday afternoon and police arrested 12 of the accused.
When asked, Kotwali police station Officer-in-Charge Jasim Uddin admitted it to the Dhaka Tribune.
Meanwhile, condemning the attack Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits who run the attack on the mobile court.
The CAB urged upon the local administration keep continual such drives against the errant drug stores in the city.
Some unruly drug traders made the attack on Tuesday noon, leaving two Ansar members injured while a mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Ruhul Amin was conducting a drive at KC Dey Road adjacent to Hazari Lane.
The mobile court fined two drug stores Tk10,000 and arrested two drug traders on charge of selling fake medicines.
Being infuriated by the arrest, drug traders shuttered down their shops and started protesting seeking a halt to the drive.
There are above 450 drug stores on the lane which considers wholesale market of medicine in the port city.
Meanwhile, a Chittagong court sent 12 assaulters to jail who launched an attack on a mobile court on Tuesday.
Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Nowrin Akhter Kankon passed the order after rejecting bail petitions.
“The assaulters were produced before the court. Although the defence counsel prayed for bail, the court rejected it after hearing,” said CMP Additional Deputy Commissioner (prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan.
