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Jamaat trio linked with glut of cases
4 of those for war crimes; 16-day remand for interrogation of Nizami, Mojahid, Sayedee; at least 100 Jamaat, Shibir men picked up across country
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| Law enforcers escort three top Jamaat leaders, Sayedee, Mojahid and Nizami, to a Dhaka court yesterday. Photo: STAR |
The move came a day after they had been arrested for failing to appear in a Dhaka court in connection with a case of hurting the religious sentiment of the country's Muslims.
The court however granted the three Jamaat top brass bail in that case yesterday.
Meanwhile, law enforcers arrested at least 100 leaders and activists of Jamaat and allied student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir from different parts of the country till last night since late hours of Tuesday, for putting up road barricades, burning of tires, and bringing out marches protesting the arrests of their leaders. Khulna district Jamaat ameer also former lawmaker, Mia Golam Parwar, was among the arrestees.
Twenty two of them were arrested from the Dhaka court premises yesterday for unlawful gathering.
Nizami and Mojahid were shown arrested in two war crime related cases filed with Keraniganj and Pallabi police stations of the capital in 2007 and 2008, for killing freedom fighters during the country's liberation war in 1971.
A Pirojpur court yesterday granted two petitions for showing Delwar Hossain Sayedee arrested in two separate cases, filed with Pirojpur Sadar and Ikurkandi police stations last year, in connection with killing freedom fighters, torching of houses, and looting of valuables during the liberation war.
"Sayedee was shown arrested in the two cases following a court order," Pirojpur Superintendent of Police Nafiul Islam told The Daily Star last night.
All three of them were shown arrested in connection with Rajshahi University student Faruq Hossain's murder.
The trio were remanded in five other cases. Three of those cases were filed with Paltan police station in the capital, and are in connection with assault on police, and attempt to murder; one was filed with Ramna police station in the capital in connection with an incident of torching a car on June 27 this year, in which two persons were severely burnt; and the other is a sedition case filed with Uttara police station in the capital in March this year.
After the remand hearing, the arrested three were produced before the court which had issued the arrest warrants against them on Tuesday. After hearing both the prosecution and defence, the court granted the arrestees bail in the case in connection with hurting the Muslims' religious sentiment.
Then they were sent to Dhaka Central Jail. They were transported in a prison van amid tight security.
A top police official, wishing anonymity, told The Daily Star that the arrests "were not made suddenly", and hinted that the three might be shown arrested in more cases filed at different parts of the country.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun however told reporters, in the morning before the latest developments took place, that the arrests were not linked to war crimes.
Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Maqbul Ahmad in a media briefing in the afternoon alleged that his party leaders were implicated in "false" cases for "political revenge".
The Dhaka court proceeded with the cases amid a pandemonium yesterday, as hundreds of curious lawyers thronged the court room and the premises, when the accused were brought in at 4:30pm.
Few of the onlooking lawyers were shouting out slurs at the arrestees, accusing them of being killers, and anti-liberation individuals.
The court went on with the proceedings without power supply for about two hours.
Around three hundred law enforcers including members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), and Armed Police Battalion were deployed in the court complex to avoid any untoward incident.
Earlier in the day, leaders and workers of ruling Awami League backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League brought out marches chanting slogans against Jamaat and Shibir around the court premises.
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=144880
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