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| Rajshahi city Jamaat ameer remanded |
| 2010-02-13 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Rajshahi city Jamaat Ameer Ataur Rahman and 10 other Shibir men were taken on a five-day remand yesterday in connection with three cases filed for February 9 RU violence. The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate granted the five-day remand while the police sought for 10 days. Ataur Rahman has been shown remanded in Faruk Hossain killing case. BCL activist and Rajshahi University student Faruk was hacked to death during the RU rampage. Police charged the Jamaat leader with ordering and provoking Shibir cadres to go berserk and perpetrate the murder. With the 11, the number of arrestees in Rajshahi following the RU incident has reached 46. Meanwhile, two injured BCL workers, Rahedul Islam Rahi and Ruhul Amin, earlier admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, lodged two more cases against some 90 Shibir leaders and activists with Motihar Police Station yesterday. Rahi accused 34 Shibir men, including RU Shibir president Shamsul Alam Golap and general secretary Mobarak Hossain, and 25 other unknown persons. Ruhul accused 31 Shibir men. The complainants said the accused persons had attacked them during the overnight clash between BCL and Shibir on RU campus. Including these two cases, a total of five cases have been filed against 700 persons for their alleged involvement in the RU violence. An unprecedented number of police and Rab members were deployed at different points of the city, especially the Shibir strongholds and mosques, to prevent Shibir from staging protest programmes. Shibir men have fled the city locking up their messes at Meherchandi, Budpara, Binodpur and several other places. Police raided some of the dens last night. |
| Posted by:Fred |