Mojaheed remanded for three days, Kamar - Quader for five
Friday, 16 July 2010
A Dhaka court has granted the police three days to grill Jama'at-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in a 1971 genocide case, reports bdnews24.com.
Refusing a 10-day remand plea, magistrate Rokhsana Begum Happy of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court gave the order Thursday.
Magistrate Rokhsana also refused the defence's bail and remand cancellation petitions.
The Criminal Investigation Department of police inspector, Mohammad Nurul Islam Siddiqui, who made the remand plea, is investigating the case.
Independence war veteran Amir Hossain Molla had filed the genocide case against the Jama'at general secretary with the Pallabi police in February 2008.
Jama'at's assistant secretaries general Abdul Quader Molla and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman have already been arrested in the case and each has been placed on a five-day remand.
Pallabi thana Officer-in-charge chief Iqbal Hossain told the news agency Tuesday that Jama'at-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami has also been named an accused in the case.
In the case statement, Amir Hossain Molla said that he had formed a voluntary force and began training them in response to the call on March 7, 1971 by independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
At the same time, Molla alleged, Abdul Quader Molla also began training non-Bangali Bihari people in the name of stopping Pakistan from disintegrating.
Pakistan occupation forces flew onto the bank of the river Turag by helicopter early on the morning of April 24, 1971, when Quader along with other accused, surrounded Alokdi village.
The Pakistani forces shot dead 64 innocent people on that day. Additionally, they killed another 344 people, including 280 farmers harvesting Boro paddy. The accused later buried all the bodies in a mass grave.
Refusing a 10-day remand plea, magistrate Rokhsana Begum Happy of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court gave the order Thursday.
Magistrate Rokhsana also refused the defence's bail and remand cancellation petitions.
The Criminal Investigation Department of police inspector, Mohammad Nurul Islam Siddiqui, who made the remand plea, is investigating the case.
Independence war veteran Amir Hossain Molla had filed the genocide case against the Jama'at general secretary with the Pallabi police in February 2008.
Jama'at's assistant secretaries general Abdul Quader Molla and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman have already been arrested in the case and each has been placed on a five-day remand.
Pallabi thana Officer-in-charge chief Iqbal Hossain told the news agency Tuesday that Jama'at-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami has also been named an accused in the case.
In the case statement, Amir Hossain Molla said that he had formed a voluntary force and began training them in response to the call on March 7, 1971 by independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
At the same time, Molla alleged, Abdul Quader Molla also began training non-Bangali Bihari people in the name of stopping Pakistan from disintegrating.
Pakistan occupation forces flew onto the bank of the river Turag by helicopter early on the morning of April 24, 1971, when Quader along with other accused, surrounded Alokdi village.
The Pakistani forces shot dead 64 innocent people on that day. Additionally, they killed another 344 people, including 280 farmers harvesting Boro paddy. The accused later buried all the bodies in a mass grave.