[Bangla Daily Star] A regional leader of outlawed Lal Pataka, a faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party...the
Proletarian Party of East Bengal, a Maoist party that has seen better days. It supported independence in 1971 and has periodic shootouts and fisticuffs with the Bangla Jamaat-e-Islami, but has fallen on hard times, with many of its leaders rubbed out by the RAB or indignant citizenry. It is also subject to factionalism, to the extent that it may have more factions than it has actual members...
, was killed in a "shootout" between police and his cohorts in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia early yesterday.
| Manolo! Fetch the map! |
On information that a group of outlaws, including Jalil, was about to gather at Aziz Brick Kiln at Pulpara,
| A properly proletarian location, redolent of the labouring masses... |
| Yessss, the bestest raids take place at 0 dark thirty... |
"Police asked the outlaws to surrender
| Most politely, and with hand-delivered, engraved invitations on heavy card stock... |
| How rude! RSVP does not mean 'shoot the innocent butler'. |
| And the butler. Though nameless, he ought not be forgotten. |
| "You took an hour to put two bullets behind the ear of Abdul Jalil, 43, Corporal Md Abdullullah?" "Sorry sir. But it was time for our tea break. We were multitasking, per the captain's efficiency drive." |
... as though they had never been...
Later, police recovered the body of Jalil from the spot, Halim said. Two light guns, six bullets and two bombs were also found there.
| To be polished to a gleam by the newest recruit before being returned to their velvet cases in the evidence vault. The shutter gun has been out for repairs. |
| ...On twelve systems, which takes some doing... |
The Kushtia District and Sessions Judge's Court had sentenced Jalil to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in an arms case in 2001.
Soon after his release in 2011, Jalil allegedly bumped offed Abu Zafar, a member of Kursha Union Gay Pareehad in Mirpur upazila and since then he was on the run.