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| Mufti Jasim, 7 NSU students charged |
| 2014-01-29 |
| This is the Bangla press version of the preceding Pak press story. Differences between the two: Names. Organizations. [Bangla Daily Star] Almost a year after the killing of blogger Rajib, detectives yesterday charged Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, chief of emerging bully boy group Ansarullah Bangla Team, and seven students of North South University. The students had vowed to kill "atheist bloggers" after reading Jasimuddin's books and listening to his sermons, the investigation officer said in the charge sheet. They targeted Rajib "for his blog posts under the nick of Thabababa" and got divided into two -- "intel group" to collect his details and track him down and the "execution group" to carry out the murder. The charge sheet mentioned Jasimuddin as the "instigator" while Redwanul Azad Rana, one of the seven students, as the "planner". Rana is on the run while Jasimuddin and six others -- Md Faisal Bin Nayem alias Dweep, Maksudul Hasan alias Anik, Md Ehsan Reza alias Rumman, Nayem Sikdar alias Iraj, Nafis Imtiaz and Sadman Yasir Mahmud -- are in jug. They gave confessional statements before magistrates on different dates. In their confession, the NSU students said they vowed to kill anyone who would insult Islam and Prophet Mohammad. According to their statements, Dweep was first to strike Rajib and others then assisted him. Arrested on August 11 last year, Jasimuddin Rahmani confessed before a magistrate that students inspired by his sermons might have killed Rajib. He realised that preaching such things aloud in public was not a right thing to do because there is law and court in the country. And anyone who would do anything wrong being provoked by his speeches should be tried under the law of the land, he said. DB Inspector Nibaron Chandra Barman, also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka. The officer appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant against Rana. The charge sheet will be placed before a magistrate today for its acceptance. Ahmed Rajib Haider, an activist of Shahbagh movement demanding death penalty for war criminals, was hacked to death in the capital's Pallabi on February 15 last year. After the murder, radical Islamists spread propaganda that Shahbagh movement organisers, including Rajib, were "atheists". Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... , a Chittagong-based Islamist group, began to press for hanging of "atheist bloggers". "Rajib was a progressive person and wrote fervently against communalism and religious extremism in his blog," said his father Dr Nazimuddin last night. Talking to The Daily Star, he also said the allegation that Rajib insulted Islam and the Prophet Mohammad is baseless. He expressed satisfaction over the progress of the case but said it raises concern that the "planner" behind crime is still not caught. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Students. Again. It always starts with the students. Education isn't always a good thing,is it? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-01-29 11:32 |