A case has been filed against 15 to 20 unnamed men over the attack on independent candidate of Dhaka-17 by-polls Md Ashraful Alam alias Hero Alam on the day of voting to the constituency on Monday (July 17).

Hero Alam’s private assistant Sujan Rahman Shuvo filed the case with Banani Police Station on Tuesday. 

According to UNB report, Ashraful Alam, better known as “Hero Alam”, an independent candidate of Dhaka-17 by-election, was physically assaulted while leaving a polling centre in Banani area on Monday.

Hero Alam was attacked in the afternoon while he was entering the Banani Bidyaniketan School polling centre, UNB photographer reported from the spot.