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| Bangladesh |
| Mufti Izhar shown held |
| 2011-01-03 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Detained Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury, president of an Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... (IOJ) faction, was shown jugged yesterday for his alleged involvement in the abduction of physician Azizur Rahman in the capital's Mirpur area in September 2003. Bangla daily Prothom Alo on May 13, 2008 published a report that a jihad boy confessed to the police that they had kidnapped homeopath Azizur for protesting jihad boy activities during his stay in Khulna. Following the report, Harkatul Jihad Chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and several others were shown jugged in an abduction case filed by Azizur's wife. Names of several jihad boy groups and the IOJ came up during their interrogation. Metropolitan Magistrate Shamima Parvin issued the order to show Izharul jugged in the case after Fazlul Kabir, investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a petition to the court. Fazlul Kabir, also assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department, sought a ten-day remand from the court to question him about Azizur's abduction. The court fixed tomorrow for hearing the remand prayer. Rab members nabbed Izharul at a madrasa at Lalkhan Bazar in Chittagong on December 16 for his alleged links with HuJI. Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. He was shown jugged in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009. Azizur, a resident of Mazar Road in Mirpur, had gone missing on September 4, 2003. The police are yet to trace him. His wife Farhana Reza Jui filed an abduction case with Mirpur Police Station against five unidentified people on September 23 the same year. CID Inspector Mohammad Wares, the first IO of the case, tendered final report to the court on May 12, 2007 saying the charges against the five had not been proved. Jui submitted a no-confidence petition against the final report on September 30, 2007. The court rejected the petition since it was filed after the acceptance of the final report. She appealed to the home ministry to reinvestigate the case after Prothom Alo published a report. The ministry accepted her request and ordered the CID to reinvestigate the case. |
| Posted by:Fred |