Police have arrested at least 81 persons in six cases over an Ahmadiyya religious event in Panchagarh sadar upazila.
Police have arrested at least 81 persons in six cases over an Ahmadiyya religious event in Panchagarh sadar upazila.
Police arrested them from different places till Monday morning.
According to sources, four sub inspectors of police, a RAB officer and an Osman Ali filed the cases accusing several thousand of people.
Two men were killed and at least 50 people sustained injuries in the clash between a section of Muslim devotees and police demanding the closure of a Qadiani Salana Jalsa in Panchagarh town on Friday.
After the Jummah prayers, devotees gathered from some mosques in the Panchagarh municipality area and started a protest march.
Then they went to Panchagarh town staging an agitation there. At one point they marched towards the Qadianis Jalsa in the Ahmed Nagar area.