Daily Star, Mon. June 16, 2003

UPDF office torched due to internal feud, says PCJSS

Our Correspondent, Rangamati

The Parbattya Chattagram Jono Sanghati Shamity (PCJSS) has protested filing of a case against 34 of its leaders and activists by the United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF), saying it is an attempt to harass them.

The case was fled on Wednesday after UPDF office at Kutukchhori in Rangamati was torched in the early hours of Tuesday last. In the case it was alleged that armed terrorists 'lured' by PCJSS torched the UPDF office.

PCJSS in a press release on Saturday claimed that the arson was the outcome of internal feud in UPDF.

On Tuesday, UPDF activists barricaded the Rangamati-Mahalchhori road and chanted slogan against PCJSS.

The PCJSS press release said UPDF is 'patronised' by a vested quarter and it is trying to harass PCJSS leaders and activists.

Earlier, UPDF filed another case against 19 PCJSS leaders and activists of its Khagrachhori district unit after its (UPDF) Khagrachhori office was torched on May 12, the PCJSS press release said.