Detectives claimed to have identified at least 313 donors, who used to finance Hefajat-e Islam that carried out violence across the country late last month protesting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
Confirming the development, AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of police, said, We have so far identified 313 people who provided funds to Hefajat.
According to investigators, a large number of them are expatriate Bangladeshis and some of them are top BNP leaders.
Meanwhile, police sources said Mamunul Haque, who is now on remand, told that Hefajat wanted to turn Bangladesh into a country like Pakistan or Afghanistan through transforming the organisation into militant group Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan.
The central committee of the Qawmi madrasa-based Hefajat-e Islam has been dissolved.
The announcement was made last night by the Islamist outfit s Amir, Junayed Babunagari, through a 1.24-minute video message. The committee has been dissolved on advice of some important members of the central committee, he said in the message from Hathazari madrasa in Chattogram.
The Hefajat amir also said the organisation would run its activities through a convening committee in the coming days.
Hefajat has been under tremendous pressure from the government to restructure its central committee by removing from it those leaders involved in last month s mayhem in different parts of the country, several leaders of the outfit told this newspaper.
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Hefajat’s mayhem: Jubo Dal activist among 11 arrested in Brahmanbaria
Jubo Dal activist Hasmat Khandaker. Photo: Collected
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Police have arrested 11 more people, including a Jubo Dal activist, in the cases filed over vandalism and arson during a demonstration by Hefajat-e Islam activists in Brahmanbaria on March 26 and 28 centring the visit of Indian PM Narendra Modi, said in a press release sent from the Special Branch of the district police.
Among them, Hasmat Khandaker (49) of Ghatura village in Sadar upazila, Jubo Dal organising secretary of Brahmanbaria district unit, is the prime accused of a case filed in connection with the attack on Brahmanbaria Police Lines during Hefajat-enforced hartal on March 28.
5 Bagerhat policemen hurt in attack by Hefajat activists: police
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Five policemen, including the officer-in-charge (OC) of Mollahat Police Station, were injured in an attack allegedly by Hefajat-e Islam activists in Bagerhat this morning.
The incident took place after teachers and students of various madrasas gathered near the Hospital Corner area in Mollahat in the morning to protest the arrest of Hefajat leader Mamunul Haque, injured OC Kazi Golam Kabir said.