[Dhaka Tribune] Alleged Jamaat leader Imrul Kayes, killed in a "shootout" with detectives in Dhaka yesterday, came to the capital recently because he was wanted in his home district Narail in connection with blockade-related violence.Police said he had been living in a mess near the Dakkhin Musuddi Government Primary School in the capital's Wari area and was planning to carry out subversive activities in the city.
He was wanted by Narail police because he was allegedly involved with several incidents of violence after the BNP-Jamaat-led 20-party alliance's non-stop blockade began on January 6.
Imrul's wife Jannatul Ferdous lives at their village home in Narail with their only daughter.
His cousin Jahidur Rahman, a lawyer by profession, yesterday received the dead body from the Dhaka Medical College Morgue where an autopsy was done.
Jahidur claimed that his cousin was a student of the capital's Tejgaon College. "He was a concillor of ward number one of Narail Municipality and a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
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Deputy Commissioner Jahangir Hossain Matubbar from the Detective Branch (DB) of Police said Imrul had several arson and vandalism cases against his name in Narail; DB is now trying to find out more about those cases.
When contacted over phone, Narail sadar cop shoppe OC Sheikh Motiar Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune that Imrul is wanted in a total of eight cases, all filed at different times after December 2013.
The OC also said three of those cases were filed very recently in connection with arson and vandalism after the blockade began; he was sued in a number of cases in 2012 as well.