Police have arrested three individuals, including Asaduzzaman Mintu Mallik, president of the Amtali Upazila Sramik League and chairman of Holdia Union Parishad, in connection with a case filed over an attack on a BNP rally in Barguna’s Amtali upazila. The other two arrestees are Arpangasia Union Awami League president Humayun Kabir and Amtali Municipality Jubo League joint general secretary Amit Rasul Apu. They were detained during a police operation on Sunday night and produced before the Amtali Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on Monday afternoon, where Judge Md. Ifti Hasan Imran ordered them to be sent to jail. The case, filed under the Explosives and Special Powers Acts, names 65 accused and 150 unidentified persons. The attack reportedly took place on October 22 last year, when BNP activists organized a procession that came under assault by Awami League members.