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| Nizami on remand for first time |
| 2010-07-05 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday started quizzing Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, remanded for the first time in his political career, on various issues including his party's alleged links with the planned violence to foil war crimes trial, and with militants. A senior police official, who is on the interrogation team, said they would also verify some information already gleaned from Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Nizami is being interrogated in a case filed with the city's Paltan Police Station for attacking law enforcers and obstructing their work in February. Mojahid and Sayedee have already been interrogated in the case, and are being quizzed in another case filed with the same police station against the trio on February 12 for obstructing the president's motorcade. Seeking anonymity, the police official said, "They are preparing to show the three Jamaat leaders arrested in two cases filed against JMB chief Saidur Rahman in connection with recovery of explosives from his den in the city in May." Saidur, now in Narayanganj jail, have already divulged some information regarding links between Jamaat and the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The official said they have already collected call list of Saidur's cell phone, and found that a number of top leaders of Jamaat had contacted him by cell phone. A police team took Nizami to the office of the detective branch of police from Dhaka Central Jail yesterday afternoon for interrogation. He is also remanded for three days just as Mojahid and Sayedee in the case filed for obstructing the motorcade of the president. The case statement said some 1,500 to 1,600 activists of Jamaat and its front organisations, nine of them identified, blockaded the road at Fakirerpool, obstructing the president's scheduled visit to a place. They also attacked police, who tried to disperse them, causing injuries to some law enforcers. The three Jamaat leaders were arrested on June 29 and shown arrested in eight cases. They were also remanded for 16 days in five of those cases. |
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