Jhenaidah Correspondent :The Imam of a mosque went missing from Kaliganj upazila in Jhenaidah district four days ago. Locals said that some plainclothes men picked up him from his house at about 1.00 pm on Tuesday. The victim has been identified as Abdul Hai, 35, son of Ashraful Alam Muhuri from Kaliganj upazilaThe villagers said, Abdul Hai was in his house. Suddenly some plainclothes men on two motorbikes arrived there. They picked up Abdul Hai and left the scene immediately.They said, Abdul Hai passed the Masters from Islamic University and became a Imam by profession. He was also imparting Arabic education to the children in the locality. During the student life, he was a worker of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS).Kaliganj PS Officer-in-Charge Aminul Islam said that they had heard that an Imam of the mosque was missing since Tuesday. But none of the family lodged any complaint in this regard. The police men were not involved with his missing, OC said. A student named Hasan Ali (15), reading in Class X, from Chapri village in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila was reportedly missing for about a year.Sundari Begum, mother of Hasan Ali said, she filed a general diary (GD) with the police station in this regard. In the GD, the mother mentioned that Hasan Ali was studying in Madhupur High School under the Sadar upazila. He left the house saying that he would attend a private teaching class in the locality. But he did not come back home. After a week, Hasan phoned his mother and said that he was good. Since then, the family could not trace out him, the mother said.Jhenaidah Sadar PS Officer in Charge Harendra Nath Sarker said, a general had been lodged. We are searching for his whereabout. Meanwhile, Jhenaidah Police Super Altaf Hossain said, the house owners should obtain permission from the police before allocating rooms for mess purposes. He said, there is no existence of any militant in the district. Even the police was not at all informed about the presence of militants at Jhenaidah’s Sonalipara. The SP said, the attack on Kastosagra Ashram attendant Shyamananda Sarker and the Gulshan Restaurant was conducted the same day and as such the report that Nibras participated in both the missions was really baseless.about militancy staying in Jhenaidah, the police man said, some media has been forecasting misleading information to panic the people.When asked about the existence of a retired Army personnel and the owner of the mess at Sonalipara where militant Nibras and Abir were staying earlier, he said, the police were not informed of the occurrence.Shibir supporters were involved in a number of killing missions in Jhenaidah district, sources said.
