11 arrested, 27 cases over violence during student protests

Police have started 27 cases and arrested 11 people on different violence-related charges like vandalism of cars during student protests for safe roads in the capital.

Enraged students from Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College vandalise a bus after two students from the same institution died in a bus accident on Airport Road on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi Enraged students from Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College vandalise a bus after two students from the same institution died in a bus accident on Airport Road on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Enraged students from Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College vandalise a bus after two students from the same institution died in a bus accident on Airport Road on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi Enraged students from Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College vandalise a bus after two students from the same institution died in a bus accident on Airport Road on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The number of arrestees and cases would rise, Md Muntasirul Islam, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told bdnews24.com on Monday.

Six people were detained over student-police clashes at Shahbagh on Monday.

Shahbagh Police Station OC Abul Hasan said the detainees would be released to their relatives.

The Awami League started two cases against unidentified people over the attack on its chief Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s political office at Dhanmondi on Saturday following rumours, the ruling party’s deputy office secretary Biplab Barua said.