In Baliyadangi, Thakurgaon district, a student from a banned student organization was arrested on Tuesday, 10 November, after an attempt to lock the main gate of Samir Uddin Smriti College and display protest posters. According to the local student group, the Bangladesh Student League, the suspect, Arif Hasan, who serves as the general secretary of the Samir Uddin Smriti College branch of the banned student organization, was seen locking the college’s main gate and posting a protest banner. The student group and allied members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had been on alert since the morning and chased the student, detaining him before handing him over to police. Ilias Ali, the local student group’s convenor, said the student group would not allow any activity of the banned student organization in the upazila and that they were acting under the Prime Minister’s instructions. He added that the student group and BNP’s allied organizations had pursued the suspect. Abdul Hakim, the assistant sub‑inspector of Baliyadangi police station, confirmed that the suspect was taken to the station and is currently being interrogated.
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