The police on Saturday arrested three people who staged a showdown with arms in front of the house of a ward councillor candidate in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) election.
The arrestees are Atikur Rahman, 42, Juber Ahmed, 38, and Nuruzzaman, 34, hailing from different areas of the city.
They are the supporters of councillor candidate Aftab Ahmed from Ward No 7.
Sudip Das, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said drives are going on to arrest others involved in the incident.
He said they are yet to recover the arms which they used for staging the showdown.
On Tuesday morning, candidate Aftab, also president of the city unit Swechchhasebak League, and his supporters went in front of the house of another candidate Md Abdullah Sayeed in the Subidbazar Dighi Par area.
They staged a showdown with guns and intimated the candidate. A video clip of the incident went viral on social media shortly.
Sayeed said he lodged a complaint to the returning officer in this regard.
