| I dunno why, but I love it when things like this happen. |
 Lawyers detained and handed Abdul Halim Fakir, 35, an advocate from the Dhaka Judge's Court, over to Kotwali police yesterday, reports our Staff Correspondent in Chittagong. Following information squeezed out of Fakir, the police arrested the uncle of the JMB cadre at a residential hotel in Laldighirpar. Court sources said Fakir came to the Chittagong Court Building yesterday noon and moved the bail petition for JMB activist Syed Farhad Nasim alias Bappi at the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Monwarul Islam at 3:00pm. As the lawyers of the court challenged Fakir, he failed to show valid documents for moving the petition. The angry lawyers thumped rebuked him and handed him over to police.
The police in the afternoon arrested Abdur Rouf, 45, Bappi's uncle, at Hotel Sugandha, but could not net two other relatives who were present there, sources said. Fakir has been handed over to Detective Branch (DB) of police for interrogation.
| "Youse can't interrogate me! I'm a mout'piece!... Oooooow!" |
The DB of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested Bappi along with four more JMB activists at Pallabi in Mirpur in the capital on December 11. Jahiruddin Jeetu, Bappi's brother and Dhaka district JMB commander, is one of the 21 JMB men who were arrested after a gunfight with police in Joypurhat on August 14, 2003, police said. |