Custody of Mamunul, 2 other Hefazat leaders extended
Mon, Apr 26 2021 10:19:29 PM
By Sumi Khan
Dhaka, Apr 26 (IANS): A court in Dhaka on Monday extended, by seven days, the custody of Hefazat leaders Mamunul Haque, Junaid Al Habib and Jalaluddin Kashemi, in a 2013 case of theft, vandalism and massacre as well as fresh cases in connection with the violence last month.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury extended the remand after the three were produced in court on Monday morning after their earlier seven-day remand ended.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police s (DMP) Tejgaon Division arrested Mamunul, the main accused in the five-day violence orchestrated by his Hefazat and the Jamaate-e-Islami-BNP that left at least 17 dead, from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Mohammadpur on April 18.
Hefajat forms panel hours after dissolution of central committee
Hefajat forms panel hours after dissolution of central committee
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Nurul Islam Jihadi, Secretary General of the dissolved committee announced himself as the Secretary General of the convening committee.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said, All the Islamists, who are involved in massacre, arson and vandalization, were captured on CCTV footages and will be arrested. None of them are innocent.
Hefajat leaders claimed, they are now under tremendous pressure from the government to restructure its committee by removing the leaders, who are involved in the 5-day massacre, the violent activities by Hefazat and Jamat BNP, that had left at least 17 people dead.
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Hefajat leader Mamunul had close links to a Pakistani militant group, police claim
Mamunul Haque. File photo
A Pakistani militant group had close links with Hefajat leader Mamunul Haque, police alleged today.
Mamunul and his brother-in-law Mufti Niamatullah made the connection during their visit to Pakistan in 2005, Harun-Or Rashid, deputy commissioner of Tejgaon Division police, said to reporters at his office today.
The duo stayed for around 45 days in Pakistan at the time and also collected a political manifesto which Mamunul later tried to apply to develop Hefajat.
DC Harun said they came to know about these after interrogating Mamunul, who is now on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Mohammadpur police station.
The combined Islamic education board of Qawmi madrasas yesterday decided that the teachers and students of Qawmi madrasas will stay away from all sorts of political activities.
The government-recognised board, Al Hayatul Ulaya Lil Jamiatul Qaumia, made the final decision at a meeting at a madrasa in the capital s Jatrabari area with board Chairman Maulana Mahmudul Hasan in the chair, it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, police claimed that top Hefajat leader Mamunul Haque has close links with a Pakistani militant outfit. The Hefajat joint secretary general, now on police remand, allegedly developed the links through his brother-in-law Mufti Niamatullah during his Pakistan visit in 2005.