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Hefajat delegation meets with home minister over crackdown on top leaders
Nurul Islam Jihadi (C), secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam convening committee arrives in front of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan s residence in the capital on May 5. Photo: Collected
Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
A delegation of Hefajat-e Islam held a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at his residence in the capital to negotiate the ongoing crackdown on its top leaders following the recent violent activities of the Qawmi-madrasa based organisation.
Led by Nurul Islam Jihadi, secretary general of the convening committee of Hefajat, the 10-member delegation of the organisation entered the Home Minister s residence around 9:30pm tonight. The meeting lasted for more than two hours and ended around 12:00am.
313 Hefazat financiers identified: DB commissioner
313 Hefazat financiers identified: DB commissioner
Investigators have identified 313 persons for financing the Hefazat-e-Islam which carried out violence in different places of the country in March this year.
At the same time, they gathered information over transaction of Tk 6 crore in different bank accounts of Hefazat leader Mamunul Haque, said AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday.
“A number of Hefazt leaders including Mamunul Haque and Junayed Al Habib had a meeting in the wedding programme of the son of just-dissolved Hefazat committee’s Amir Junayed Babunagari. In the meeting, they planned to made Babunagari the party Amir removing Allama Shafi,” said Hafiz Akhter.
Babunagari was responsible for 2013 Shapla Chattar incident: former leaders of Hefajat claim Star Online report Star Online report
Followers of late Shah Ahmad Shafi and former leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam alleged that Hefajat s present Amir Junayed Babunagari was responsible for the 2013 incident at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka.
They said this at a discussion on the life and works of Ahmad Shafi, former amir of the Qawmi-madrasa based Islamist outfit, at the Chittagong Press Club today.
At the discussion, Salimullah, a former joint secretary general of Hefajat, said that Babunagari, who was secretary general in 2013, kept the Hefajat men at Shapla Chattar overnight without informing the-then Amir Shah Ahmad Shafi.