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| Mufti Izhar, son charge-sheeted |
| 2014-02-11 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Chittagong police yesterday pressed charges against Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 it demonstrated violently against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... nayeb-e-ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury, his son and seven others in a case filed in connection with an kaboom at a madrasa. The blast occurred in a room of a dormitory of Al Jamaatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa in port city's Lalkhan Bazar on October 7, 2013. Three people died in the kaboom. Md Lokman, a sub-inspector of Khulshi Police Station, submitted the charge sheet before the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Mashiur Rahman Chowdhury around 1:30pm. The other accused of the case are Abdul Hai, Rabibur Rahman, Md Ishak, Monir Hossain, Abdul Mannan, Tafsir Ahmed and Mohammad Junayed. Mufti Izharul and his son Harun Bin Izhar were made the prime accused in the case, said Rezaul Masud, additional deputy commissioner (prosecution) of Chittagong police. Izharul, also principal of the madrasa, went into hiding after the blast, he added. According to the charge sheet, explosives were made and kept at the madrasa for conducting subversive activities and creating panic among people. After the kaboom, police recovered four handmade grenades and huge bomb-making materials like iron caps, cylinders, electric cables and 18 bottles of picric acid from madrasa premises. Izharul, however, claimed that the kaboom originated from a laptop charger while his son Harun claimed that it was from an instant power supply (IPS). Two cases -- one under explosive substances act and the other for storing acid -- were filed with Khulshi Police Station on October 8, 2013, said SI Lokman. Later a murder case was filed in connection with the blast, Lokman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the kaboom case, added. Police nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Harun and his bodyguard Md Junayed from the house of Harun's in-law at Hathazari upazila of Chittagong on October 9. The IO said 12 people were accused in the explosive case. The charge sheet was submitted against nine people as three other accused -- Nur-un-Nabi, Md Salman and Jobair Ahmed -- gave up the ghost at Chittagong Medical College Hospital. |
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