Staff Reporter :The bodies of two of Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders were found shot dead in Jessore district on Wednesday after about three weeks of their missing from Jhenaidah district.The bodies were recovered from a local cremation ground (Shashan ghat) at Laukhali village in JessoreSadar upazila in the morning. The deceased have been identified as Abujar Gifari, 22, President of Kaliganj Municipal unit of Chhatra Shibir and son of Islam Ali, an inhabitant of Chapali village under Kaliganj upazila in Jhenaidah district, and Shamim Hossain, 20, a local Shibir leader and son of Ruhul Amin from Bakulia village under the same upazila, our local corresponded said after quoting police and the family members of the victims.Gifari was a third year student of Bangla Department of Jessore MM College and Shamim was a second year student of KC College in Jhenaidah.Both the victims’ families at separate press conferences claimed that plainclothes police introducing themselves as detectives picked up Gifari and Shamim on March 18 and 25 respectively and they remained missing since then. But the DB police rejected the allegation, reports our correspondent.Kaliganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain said that they were informed that the bullet hit bodies of the two Shibir leaders were laying in the funeral spot of Barampukur in Jessore Sadar upazila around 9:00am. The bodies had been sent to the Jessore Sadar Hospital for an autopsy. Nur Mohammad, father of Abujar said, four persons, who introduced themselves as members of Detective Branch (DB), picked up him after Jumma prayer when he was returning home from a local mosque on March 18. He filed a general diary with local police, and held a press conference at Jhenaidah Press Club in this regard. But the police repeatedly rejected the charge.Ruhul Amin, father of Shamim Hossin, alleged that his son was picked up by DB members from the main gate of Mahtab Uddin Degree College in Kaliganj town on March 24. Police rejected the accusation.Meanwhile, three other Jamaat-e-Islami leaders were allegedly picked up by DB police when they were returning from a district court on Wednesday afternoon.They are Atiqur Rahman, President (Ameer) of Jhenaidah Municipality, Hafizur Rahman, leader of local Jamamt-e-Islami and and Alamgir Hossain, an activist. In addition, another college student, Sohanur Rahman, 16, has been missing from the day the police picked up him on Sunday, his family said.He is a first-year student of local Shahid Nur Ali College.Altaf Hossain, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Jhenaidah, told The New Nation, “Law enforcers have no relation with the picking up incidents.”Police are trying to find out of the motive of the missing and murder incidents, he said. We suspected that they were dumped in the pond after killing somewhere else.
