{"id":1584,"date":"2025-07-03T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:35:29","slug":"patiya-police-chief-transferred-after-threat-of-bloodshed-by-yunus-mob-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Patiya police chief transferred after threat of bloodshed by Yunus\u2019 mob gang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The illegitimate and unconstitutional government has taken action against the officer-in-charge (OC) of the Patiya police station in Chattogram following fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1533\">protests <\/a>and threats by Muhammad Yunus\u2019 King\u2019s party leaders and activists of another massacre like last year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel-1024x961.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1588\" style=\"width:339px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel-1024x961.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel-768x721.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-arif-sohel.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The OC, Abu Zahed Md Nazmun Noor, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/bangladesh\/patiya-oc-removed-amid-protests-ncp-sad-1179756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transferred <\/a>to the Chattogram Range DIG office after a daylong protest on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leaders of the chief adviser\u2019s National Citizen Party (NCP) and Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (ADSM) alleged that the OC was trying to protect a Chhatra League leader and swooped on the pro-government students on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCP Media Cell spokesperson Arafat Ahmed Rony announced that they would observe the \u201cPatiya Blockade Programme\u201d at the police station intersection at 10am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He alleged that the OC attacked the leaders of the NCP and ADSM with police in 4-5 vehicles, leaving over 30 injured.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1592\" style=\"width:423px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-Oyon-1.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, journalists reported that four police members and at least six leaders and activists of the two parties were injured in the incident that took place around 9:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1511\">Yunus Gang\u2019s \u2018mob\u2019 and \u2018pressure group\u2019 theory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to eyewitnesses and police sources, the ADSM activists captured Dipangkar Dey, the vice president of the Rangamati district unit of Chhatra League, in front of the Central Shaheed Minar in Patiya at around 9pm and brought him to the police station premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the police did not want to arrest the Chhatra League leader, as there was no case against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the students were beating up Dipangkar by creating a mob, the police took him into their custody and baton-charged the students.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-524x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1587\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-524x1024.jpg 524w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-153x300.jpg 153w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-768x1501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-786x1536.jpg 786w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1-6x12.jpg 6w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-threat-1.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The OC told reporters that the students created a mob and beat up the police. They also broke the security cordon and tried to enter the police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Threat of bloodshed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Tuesday night\u2019s clashes, NCP Joint Member Secretary Arif Sohel, who earlier admitted to having mobilised teen gangs and attacked the police during the July anarchy, said on Facebook that the Patiya police station has to be crushed to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another student leader named Arifin Rafi shared a photo of making petrol bombs from last July, warning the Patiya police chief of creating a hell-like situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafi is the general secretary of the Private University National Association of Bangladesh (PUNAB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdullah Shaleheen Oyon, the Joint Member Secretary of Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, issued a fatwa, saying that it is mandatory to kill the OC and hang his body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of police officers were killed by the anti-government protesters in July-August as they attacked over 450 police stations, looted arms, and killed the on-duty officers in a planned manner.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" style=\"width:473px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1-18x9.jpg 18w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/patiya-mazharul-1-1.jpg 1262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Several student coordinators, including Hasib Al Islm, and the leaders of the BNP and Bangladesh Khelafar Majlish have admitted to having killed the police to ensure the government&#8217;s ouster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irfan Bin Solaiman gave an inflammatory post on the Facebook group of ADSM\u2019s Chittagong unit, vowing to see the blood of all members of the Patiya police station, from the OC to a constable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labelling the police members as pigs, he added that they had been given a lot of scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, the students laid siege to the police station as part of the scheduled \u201cPatiya Blockade Programme\u201d and blocked the Chittagong-Cox\u2019s Bazar Highway. They also protested outside the DIG office in the city\u2019s Khulshi area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the protest was underway and the army personnel came to quell the situation, NCP chief coordinator Md Sarjis Alam posted on Facebook to label the police as killers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-pinaki.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1585\" style=\"width:391px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-pinaki.webp 648w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-pinaki-300x176.webp 300w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Patiya-pinaki-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He warned that if the killers are not tried, be they uniformed people or civilians, all police stations have become and will turn into Patiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He demanded that the interim government ensure the trial of the killers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the OC was removed from Patiya, ADSM President Rifat Rashid said that the police officer must be put on trial and punished for attacking so many students. \u201cOnly a transfer or withdrawal will not atone for the sin he has committed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pro-Yunus anarchist and patron of the student thugs, Pinaki Bhattacharya, who lives in France on political asylum, suggested that the OC Nizam has to be killed as he showed the courage to beat up the student mobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The illegitimate and unconstitutional government has taken action against the officer-in-charge (OC) of the Patiya police station in Chattogram following fierce protests and threats by Muhammad Yunus\u2019 King\u2019s party leaders&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,20,42],"tags":[456,73,50,71,54,66,267,65,56,85,64],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-politics","tag-anti-discrimination-student-movement-adsm","tag-hizb-ut-tahrir","tag-interim-government","tag-islami-chhatra-shibir","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-mob-rule","tag-mobking-yunus","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-national-citizen-party-ncp","tag-yunus-gang"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}