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| Jihadi books, police uniforms seized from city house |
| 2010-09-25 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Police seized a huge number of jihadi publications, several pairs of police uniform and replica shotguns and handguns from a two-storey building in the capital's Elephant Road yesterday. New Market police early in the morning raided the place based on a complaint that some youths had been trying to break into the building. When police reached the spot the myrmidons were gone and the residents were not home. Yesterday's recovery also includes books and booklets of Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, national flags, cassettes and CDs. Syed Nurul Islam, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Ramna zone, said, "Earlier in April, police recovered a huge number of jihadi books and documents from the same house." The building belongs to Prof Aminur Rahman Majumder, a teacher of Soil, Water and Environment Department of Dhaka University and joint convener of BNP-Jamaat backed White Panel of DU teachers. Locals said the building was left abandoned for the next few months till the new tenants moved in. Police jugged Prof Majumder's nephew Mostafizur Rahman, who is also a DU employee, and his caretaker Siddique Ullah in connection with yesterday's recovery. The arrestees live in the next building, which also belongs to Prof Majumder. The professor lives in a DU teachers' quarter. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Prof Majumder told journalists that he did not know that the tenants of the building were Shibir muscle. ADC Nurul Islam said the recovered items indicate unlawful activities. Police are investigating the matter and actions will be taken against those who are involved in this, he added. Police said they suspect Shibir activities mainly of DU and Dhaka College units used to be operated from here. Locals, however, alleged that the building has been a Shibir den for the last several years. |
| Posted by:Fred |