Police arrested two persons for their alleged involvement with attacking businessman Ehteshamul Haque on Elephant Road in the capital on Sunday.
The arrestees were Asiful Haque Asif, alias Jhontu, 32, and Md Kawsar Mridha, 24.
Talebur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of the DMP, said that after analyzing the CCTV footage, a police team arrested Kawsar from Jagannath Saha Road at around 12PM on Sunday Asiful from a mess near Hazaribagh Girls' School at around 1PM.
Legal proceedings are underway, and efforts to apprehend other suspects continue, he said.
Earlier, on Friday (January 10), a group of miscreants equipped with sharp weapons attacked Ehteshamul Haque near the western corner of ECS Computer City (Multiplan Center) at Elephant Road at around 10:40PM, leaving him critically injured.
Md Wahidul Hasan Dipu, president of the Elephant Road Computer Traders Association, also came under attack by the group while he was exiting the market in his car from the market’s ground floor.
Both of them were taken to nearby Popular Medical College Hospital in Dhanmondi, where Ehteshamul Haque remains under treatment.
A case was filed with New Market Police Station against 10 named and 20-25 unnamed others.
The case statement alleged that the attackers had been extorting traders at the market and threatening those who refused to pay tolls.
As the victims protested their activities, they came under attack, the statement added.
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