Officers of the DMP's Detective Branch (DB) also recovered firearms from the Chhatra Dal leaders. During the preliminary interrogation, the arrestees ‘confessed’ that they collected firearms from Pabna and Cox’s Bazar, DB officer Nurunnabi said at a media briefing on Sunday. “They said they collected the firearms on orders from senior leaders to sabotage the upcoming national election.”Police will make a court application to question the arrestees in custody in a bid to identify the people who gave the order, Nurunnabi added. “The arrestees said the high command of the BNP and its student wing's units at Dhaka University and other private universities were planning to bolster the party's protest movement,” said Nurunnabi. “They were planning to display the illegal firearms and create panic among the public in order to destabilise the government.”Nurunnabi said police arrested 12 people, including the acting secretary of the Dhaka South Metropolitan BNP, Tanvir Ahmed Robin, on Saturday and would present them before a court over an old case.

Source: bd News24 August 20, 2023 15:59 UTC