Rajshahi Correspondent :
A leader of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed in ‘gunfight’ between agitators and police in Rajshahi in the early hours of Wednesday.
The dead, identified as Nurul Islam Shaheen, 45, was the Jamaat-e Islami’s secretary of the City’s Ward Number 30.
He was also a teacher of Islamia Degree College, who allegedly ‘controlled’ armed cadres of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, its student wing. Besides, he owned Padma Printing Press in Rajshahi, police said.
Shaheen died in ‘gunfight’ that took place at City of Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Morh- at about 2:00 a.m. Police said he was accused of 13 cases of violence that included murdering a policeman.
Fazlul Haque, the younger brother of the dead, said the detective police took Shaheen away from his Padma Offset Printing Press in Malopara area around 8pm.
“We contacted the police headquarters in the night after an employee of the press informed us. They [police] said, he would be transferred to court on Wednesday morning. But in the morning we were informed from the hospital that Shaheen’s body was in the morgue,” the brother said.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police [RMP] Commissioner Md. Shamsuddin in a press briefing said, Shaheen was killed in ‘gunfight’ that took place at Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Mor late on Tuesday night.
A leader of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed in ‘gunfight’ between agitators and police in Rajshahi in the early hours of Wednesday.
The dead, identified as Nurul Islam Shaheen, 45, was the Jamaat-e Islami’s secretary of the City’s Ward Number 30.
He was also a teacher of Islamia Degree College, who allegedly ‘controlled’ armed cadres of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, its student wing. Besides, he owned Padma Printing Press in Rajshahi, police said.
Shaheen died in ‘gunfight’ that took place at City of Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Morh- at about 2:00 a.m. Police said he was accused of 13 cases of violence that included murdering a policeman.
Fazlul Haque, the younger brother of the dead, said the detective police took Shaheen away from his Padma Offset Printing Press in Malopara area around 8pm.
“We contacted the police headquarters in the night after an employee of the press informed us. They [police] said, he would be transferred to court on Wednesday morning. But in the morning we were informed from the hospital that Shaheen’s body was in the morgue,” the brother said.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police [RMP] Commissioner Md. Shamsuddin in a press briefing said, Shaheen was killed in ‘gunfight’ that took place at Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Mor late on Tuesday night.
