Four policemen including an officer-in-charge of Lohagara Police Station, Rashedul Islam, were withdrawn and attached to the district police lines after a Jubo League activist escaped from police custody.
Additional Superintendent of Chattogram Police Abu Taiyab Md Arif, said Jubo League activist Saiful Islam was arrested from Bahadurpara in Lohagara upazila early Monday.
But he managed to escape from police custody.
Rashedul Islam, said some 30 people brought Saiful to the police station and tried to beat him up.
When the on duty constable was busy driving the agitated people out, Saiful managed to flee the scene.
However, a new officer-in-charge has been appointed at the police station.