Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
lawyers charged with financing a Chittagong-based murderous Moslem group gave confessional statements yesterday under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code in a case lodged with Hathazari police.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Shahidul Islam recorded the statements at noon and later sent them to jail rejecting the bail petitions in the case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Supreme Court lawyers barrister Shakila Farzana and Md Hasanuzzaman Liton, and Dhaka Judge's Court lawyer Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon -- arrested on August 18 from Dhaka -- told the court yesterday that they had deposited Tk1.08 crore to an account without knowing that it was owned by a murderous Moslem leader.
On Monday, Shakila and her associates were shown arrested in the case filed regarding the raid at Shahid Hamza Brigade's theoretical training centre Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar in Hathazari on February 19.
The trio made similar statements under section 164 on Sunday in an explosives case lodged with Banshkhali police. It was lodged after the police's elite force Rapid Action Battalion
busted Hamza Brigade's military training camp in a remote hilly area of Banshkhali on February 21. They confessed to depositing money into a bank account but claimed that they were only returning an advocacy fee they had taken from a client in advance.Daughter of former BNP whip Syed Wahidul Alam, Shakila is the incumbent joint general secretary of the Supreme Court wing of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a pro-BNP lawyers' body. Details about her two associates could not be known.
The trio were nabbed by a team of RAB 7 from the capital's Dhanmondi area for their alleged involvement with the murderous Moslem outfit -- formed by disgruntled Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
members in November 2013.