The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested two employees of a shop from the Hazaribagh area in Dhaka on Tuesday in connection with last month’s clashes in the New Market area.
The arrestees are Md Kawsar and Md Babu Hossain.
Based on secret information, the DB carried out drives in the Hazaribagh area and arrested them.
Md Fazle Elahi, additional deputy commissioner of the DB (Ramna Division), said Bappi, an employee of Welcome Fast Food, locked into an altercation with Kawser and Babu, two employees of Capital Fast Food, over keeping a table for iftar items on April 18.
At one stage, Bappi called some students of Dhaka College and assaulted employees of Capital Fast Food, resulting in violent clashes between Dhaka College students and New Market shopkeepers, he added.
Earlier, nine people were arrested in connection with the clashes.
