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| Charges against Faisal, finally | |
| 2009-04-29 | |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The police yesterday pressed charges against Bangladesh-born British citizen Faisal Mostafa and 10 others in a case filed for arms haul at Green Crescent madrasa-cum-orphanage in Bhola. Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam of Borhanuddin Police Station, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to judicial magistrate Aminul Islam. He accused Faisal of links to the mini-munitions factory unearthed in the madrasa founded by his charity Green Crescent. The IO said despite knowing that Mohiuddin, a guard-cum-cook at Green Crescent, had been stockpiling huge arms and ammunition there, Faisal did not bother to inform the law enforcement agencies. Hassan Saifuddin Badal, Moulana Muhammad Russell, Jasim, Abdul Halim, Abul Kalam, Mohiuddin, Kawmi Madrasa Oikya Parishad leader Moulana Mufti Mohiuddin, Humayun Ahmed, a local primary school teacher Abul Kalam and Mizanur Rahman are the other charge-sheeted accused. Of them, the last five are still at large. The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) found the arms factory inside the madrasa-cum-orphanage on March 24. During the bust, they arrested four suspected militants--Abul Kalam, Abdul Halim, Jasim and Moulana Mohammad Russell. Initially, Faisal was not made accused in any of the two cases filed in connection with the arms recovery. Two days after the arms seizure, his relatives in Dhaka and UK claimed he had been detained since March 25. The law enforcement agencies, however, kept denying arresting him.
The charge sheet is based on Sheikh Muhammad Ali, deputy assistant director of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-8, filed the two cases on March 24--one under the arms act and the other under Anti-Terrorism Act 2008. Eleven people were made accused in the cases. SI Rafiqul said Faisal's name was included in the charge sheet after he confessed to having knowledge of the arms and ammunition stash. | |
| Posted by:Fred |