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| Mufti Izhar remanded |
| 2011-01-07 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A Chittagong court yesterday placed 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, on a four-day remand in two cases filed for his alleged involvement with a banned cut-thoat outfit, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (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. Of the two cases filed with Raojan Police Station, one was filed under Anti-Terrorism Act while the other under Explosive Substance Act. The same court also granted a total of six-day remand against five HuJI activists in the same cases. Senior Judicial Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the orders after investigation officer (IO) of the case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act, Sub Inspector of Raojan Police Station MA Latif submitted a petition with ten-day remand prayer. The court sent Mufti on a remand for two days and three days for the five HuJI men. |
| Posted by:Fred |