Jessore JCD leader, Jamaat activist flee from custody

BENAPOLE (Jessore), Feb 6 (UNB): Three policemen of Sharsha Police Station were closed to the district police lines for negligence in duty letting two accused flee from custody on Thursday.
The policemen are Shomen, sub-inspector, and Mahmudur Rahman and Rabindranath, constables.
Sources said police arrested the two accused, including a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader of the Kalaroa municipality unit in Satkhira, in connection with the attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kalaroa upazila on August 30, 2002, on Wednesday. The arrested were identified as Abdul Mazid, 30, president of the Kalaroa municipality unit JCD, and Shahidul Islam, an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami Satkhira district unit.
However, the two accused managed to flee police custody while they were being taken to produce before a court in Jessore by a three-wheeler on the Benapole-Jessore Road at Natunhat in sadar upazila on Thursday.