UNB, Chattogram :
A court here on Wednesday accepted a charge-sheet against 453 leaders and activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in a case filed over the violence in the city on January 5, 2015, the first anniversary of the 2014 general election.
Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Mahiuddin Masud took cognisance of the charges submitted by the investigation officer on June 20, said Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police Nirmalenda Chakraborty.
Those charge-sheeted include BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury, city unit President Dr Shahdat Hossain and its General Secretary Abul Hasan Bakkar and former Jamaat MP Shahjahan Chowdhury.
BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with law enforcers during a rally at Kazir Deuri in the city on January 5, 2015, leaving many, including policemen, injured. Several vehicles were also vandalised and torched during the clash.
Police filed a case against over 1,000 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men for assaulting cops and unleashing vandalism and arson attack.
8 Jamaat activists granted remand : A court in Chattogram granted remand to 8 Jamaat activists among the detained 210 Jamaat men on Monday. These jamaat men were rounded up by Metro police recently from Motel Shaikhat.Metropolitan Magistrate of Chattagram Abu Salem. Md Noman passed the order on Sunday. Addititonal Deputy Police commissioner (Prosecution) Nirmalendu Chakraborty told that among the total detained , police prayed remand for 51 persons but after hearing court granted remand to 8 activists. The bail petition for others rejected by court and ordered to send them jail custody. The remanded persons are Ferdous Ahmed, Rafiqul Islam, Anas Bin siraj, Rafiqul Alam, Abu Hanif, Siddique Ahmed, Mahfuzur Rahman, and Nowshad Hossain.
They were detained in a raid on Motel Saikat in the city said SM Mostaeen Hossain, deputy commissioner of the CMP . Police raided the motel following a tip and detained more than two hundred people, he told reporters. Mohammed Mohsin, OC of Kotwali Police Station, later told that the detainees were arrested under the Special Powers Act.
Chattogram City Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer AJM Obaidullah, Chattogram South city Shibir President Rafiqul Hasan Lodi, Secretary Imranul Haque and many others were detained in the raid Lodi is a resident of Sylhet but he came to Chattogram regarding his organisational responsibilities, OC Mohsin said. Deputy Commissioner Mostaeen had told reporters the previous night that, the Jamaat and Shibir activists had gathered at the motel for an alleged Eid get-together, but had not sought permission from police. An organisation named ‘Parabar’, the cultural affairs wing of Shibir’s Chattogram City North unit, organised the programme, said OC Mohsin.
A court here on Wednesday accepted a charge-sheet against 453 leaders and activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in a case filed over the violence in the city on January 5, 2015, the first anniversary of the 2014 general election.
Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Mahiuddin Masud took cognisance of the charges submitted by the investigation officer on June 20, said Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police Nirmalenda Chakraborty.
Those charge-sheeted include BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury, city unit President Dr Shahdat Hossain and its General Secretary Abul Hasan Bakkar and former Jamaat MP Shahjahan Chowdhury.
BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with law enforcers during a rally at Kazir Deuri in the city on January 5, 2015, leaving many, including policemen, injured. Several vehicles were also vandalised and torched during the clash.
Police filed a case against over 1,000 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men for assaulting cops and unleashing vandalism and arson attack.
8 Jamaat activists granted remand : A court in Chattogram granted remand to 8 Jamaat activists among the detained 210 Jamaat men on Monday. These jamaat men were rounded up by Metro police recently from Motel Shaikhat.Metropolitan Magistrate of Chattagram Abu Salem. Md Noman passed the order on Sunday. Addititonal Deputy Police commissioner (Prosecution) Nirmalendu Chakraborty told that among the total detained , police prayed remand for 51 persons but after hearing court granted remand to 8 activists. The bail petition for others rejected by court and ordered to send them jail custody. The remanded persons are Ferdous Ahmed, Rafiqul Islam, Anas Bin siraj, Rafiqul Alam, Abu Hanif, Siddique Ahmed, Mahfuzur Rahman, and Nowshad Hossain.
They were detained in a raid on Motel Saikat in the city said SM Mostaeen Hossain, deputy commissioner of the CMP . Police raided the motel following a tip and detained more than two hundred people, he told reporters. Mohammed Mohsin, OC of Kotwali Police Station, later told that the detainees were arrested under the Special Powers Act.
Chattogram City Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer AJM Obaidullah, Chattogram South city Shibir President Rafiqul Hasan Lodi, Secretary Imranul Haque and many others were detained in the raid Lodi is a resident of Sylhet but he came to Chattogram regarding his organisational responsibilities, OC Mohsin said. Deputy Commissioner Mostaeen had told reporters the previous night that, the Jamaat and Shibir activists had gathered at the motel for an alleged Eid get-together, but had not sought permission from police. An organisation named ‘Parabar’, the cultural affairs wing of Shibir’s Chattogram City North unit, organised the programme, said OC Mohsin.
