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| Jamaat city chief held |
| 2010-08-26 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police yesterday arrested Dhaka city unit Jamaat-e-Islami chief Rafiqul Islam Khan from his Mirpur residence in the capital. A team of DB police and Mirpur police picked up the Jamaat leader around 1:30pm and took him to the DB office at Minto Road for interrogation. Mahmubur Rahman, DB additional deputy commissioner, told The Daily Star last night that DB police will verify all the cases filed against Rafiqul Islam and then show him arrested in one of those. Earlier on August 23, Rafiqul Islam got anticipatory bails in six cases on charges of obstructing police in discharging their duties and hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid are now behind bars after being arrested in several cases. Jamaat yesterday demanded unconditional and immediate release of the city unit Jamaat chief. Jamaat, in a press release signed by its publicity secretary Nurul Islam Bulbul, alleged that police arrested Rafiqul Islam illegally in violation of the court order. Meanwhile, a team of plainclothes DB police went to the residence of former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam in Baro Moghbazar yesterday around 3:00pm and interrogated the security guards of the building. Ismail Hossain, a security guard of the building, said the DB men questioned them about the whereabouts of Ghulam Azam and stayed at the building for about three hours. DB ADC Mahmubur Rahman, however, refuted the security guard's claim. Nazmul Huq, Ghulam Azam's personal secretary, said, "Intelligence people are always seen around the house." The International Crimes Tribunal started investigating the war crimes charges against the ex-Jamaat chief. |
| Posted by:Fred |