Staff Reporter :The Jamaat-e-Islami has called for 24-hour shutdown in protest against the Supreme Court’s judgment upholding the Tribunal’s verdict awarding death sentence to the party’s Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid for crimes against humanity in 1971.A statement issued on Tuesday by the party’s Acting Chief Maqbul Ahmad called upon the people to observe countrywide shutdown from 6am on Wednesday to 6am on Thursday.Terming the charges brought against Mojaheed “false and fabricated”, the party demanded immediately release of their leader.Meanwhile, the leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami brought out processions in the capital and others parts of the country. They also exploded cocktails to create panic. Ahsanuzzaman, Assistant Commissioner of Motijheel Zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said that the Jamaat men failed to create anarchy in the capital. Border Guard Bangladesh has been deployed in the capital ahead of Wednesday’s hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami. The paramilitary forces will patrol the city streets to meet emergency.Meanwhile, the leaders of Transport Owners’ Association, have decided to ignore hartal.The Jamaat-e-Islami, collaborated with the Pakistani forces during the 1971 Liberation War and denounce every judgment of the court about its leaders and create violence. Tuesday’s statement posted on the party’s website claimed that the trials were a “farce” and a part of government’s move to “eliminate Jamaat”.The war crimes tribunal in its judgment on July 7 in 2013 ordered Mujahid to walk to the gallows for his ghastly role during the war for Independence.
