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| 3 top Jamaat leaders denied bail |
| 2011-06-24 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition jointly filed by three jugged Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... leaders in Rajshashi University student Faruk Hossain murder case. A single member HC bench of Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique delivered the verdict. On March 24, a two-member division bench delivered a split judgement on the petition filed by Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... , Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Saydee in August last year. Senior judge of that bench Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury granted them bail while junior judge Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder rejected the petition. The chief justice then formed the single member bench for final disposal of the bail petition. Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain told The Daily Star that the HC bench upheld the decision of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder. Petitioners' lawyer Tajul Islam said they were yet to decide whether they would appeal against the HC verdict with the Supreme Court. Rajshahi University Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader Faruk Hossain was killed in a clash between Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... and Chhatra League on February 9 last year. The murder case was filed on the day with Motihar Police Station. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday appeared for the government and barrister Abdur Razzaq argued for the petitioners. |
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