Nizami, Mujahid, Sayedee sent on police remand
Thursday, 1 July 2010
FE Report
Police detained Wednesday more than 200 supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing as countrywide protests escalated over the arrest of three top party leaders.
Separately, a Dhaka court granted 16 days' police remand for interrogation of Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mujahid and nayeb-e-ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in connection with five criminal cases.
But three of them, who were arrested Tuesday in a case for hurting religious sentiments of Muslims, were granted bail in the original case.
For the sedition case with Uttara thana, the Jamaat leaders were put on four days' remand and three days' remand for each of the four other cases.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Hossain gave the remand upon hearing both sides for more than one hour on.
Police foiled rallies and processions by angry Jamaat-Shibir activists in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country since the arrest of Jamaat leaders Tuesday.
Jamaat assistant secretary general Mujibur Rahman told a private news agency that the police dispersed them as they assembled to bring out processions from Nightingale crossing at Bijoynagar and the Paltan intersection.
The police also clashed with the activists in different districts, leaving scores of leaders and activists of the religious-linked party injured.
In the capital, police charged batons on Jamaat-Shibir processions in Kotwali and Bijoynagar in the afternoon and rounded up 35 activists.
Police arrested 25 activists from Dhaka District Judge Court area and six others from Bijoynagar and four from Kakrail when they brought out a procession.
Jamaat-e-Islami's top leaders were taken to Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court amid tight security around 4:30p.
The metropolitan police also appealed to the court to implicate them in cases related to the murders of freedom fighters during the independence war in 1971.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukder had earlier approved the arrests as the accused had failed to comply with a summons to appear in court to hear the charges against them.
The arrest was preceded by a case filed by the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, another religious grouping, in March, saying two party leaders had compared the Jamaat party chief with Prophet Mohammad.
Police detained Wednesday more than 200 supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing as countrywide protests escalated over the arrest of three top party leaders.
Separately, a Dhaka court granted 16 days' police remand for interrogation of Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mujahid and nayeb-e-ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in connection with five criminal cases.
But three of them, who were arrested Tuesday in a case for hurting religious sentiments of Muslims, were granted bail in the original case.
For the sedition case with Uttara thana, the Jamaat leaders were put on four days' remand and three days' remand for each of the four other cases.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Hossain gave the remand upon hearing both sides for more than one hour on.
Police foiled rallies and processions by angry Jamaat-Shibir activists in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country since the arrest of Jamaat leaders Tuesday.
Jamaat assistant secretary general Mujibur Rahman told a private news agency that the police dispersed them as they assembled to bring out processions from Nightingale crossing at Bijoynagar and the Paltan intersection.
The police also clashed with the activists in different districts, leaving scores of leaders and activists of the religious-linked party injured.
In the capital, police charged batons on Jamaat-Shibir processions in Kotwali and Bijoynagar in the afternoon and rounded up 35 activists.
Police arrested 25 activists from Dhaka District Judge Court area and six others from Bijoynagar and four from Kakrail when they brought out a procession.
Jamaat-e-Islami's top leaders were taken to Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court amid tight security around 4:30p.
The metropolitan police also appealed to the court to implicate them in cases related to the murders of freedom fighters during the independence war in 1971.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukder had earlier approved the arrests as the accused had failed to comply with a summons to appear in court to hear the charges against them.
The arrest was preceded by a case filed by the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, another religious grouping, in March, saying two party leaders had compared the Jamaat party chief with Prophet Mohammad.