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| Nizami, Mojaheed sued, summoned |
| 2010-03-22 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A criminal case was filed with a Dhaka court yesterday against five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. The case stated that Dhaka City Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan at a discussion in Dhaka on March 17 compared Nizami to Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), which hurt the Muslims. The three other accused are Jamaat-e-Islami Nayebe Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Rafiqul Islam Khan and city president of Islami Chhatra Shibir ASM Yahia. Meanwhile, a Lalmonirhat court yesterday issued a summons on Nizami and three of his party leaders to appear before it on May 25 in a case filed on similar charge. Syed Rejaul Haque Chandpuri, secretary general of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, filed the case with a metropolitan magistrate's court in Dhaka against five Jamaat leaders. After hearing the case, Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah-Al Mamun yesterday fixed Tuesday for passing an order on the case. Our Lalmonirhat correspondent reports that Chief Judicial Magistrate of the district Abu Mansur Mohammad Ziaul Haque yesterday issued the summons on four Jamaat leaders after district Awami League General Secretary Motiar Rahman filed the case. The three other accused are Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Rafiqul Islam Khan and Shafiqul Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |