Victory Day Greeting to City Dwellers

Ctg fugitive criminal makes poster with fake identity

17 December 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Fugitive Chittagong criminal Mamunur Rashid Mamun conveys Victory Day greetings to locals through posters that described him as an Awami League leader and assistant secretary general of Bijoy Mela Parishad.Photo: STAR

Mamunur Rashid Mamun, former ward commissioner and a fugitive criminal, stuck four-colour posters with fake identity to greet people on the occasion of the Victory Day raising eyebrows of city dwellers. The posters put up on the walls identified Mamun as a city Awami League leader along with the photographs of Bangabandhu and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, much to the surprise of law enforcers. Mamun was awarded life-term imprisonment in a case and accused in as many as 17 criminal cases filed with different police stations in the city for murder, abduction and extortion. He, on the posters, introduced himself as the assistant secretary general of Muktijuddher Bijoy Mela Parishad that has organised victory fair each year in Chittagong since 1989. Interestingly, the Parishad has no such post at all. When contacted, Bijoy Mela Parishad Secretary General Abul Hashem said, "We don't have any assistant secretary general in our committee. We don't have any contact with Mamun either." At the bottom of the posters publication credit was given to the city unit of Awami League and its affiliated bodies. The leaders and activists of Awami League, however, expressed resentment over the putting up of such posters of Mamun under the banner of Awami League. Chittagong City Awami League General Secretary Kazi Enamul Haque expressed his surprise over the issue and said, “We have no hand in publishing the posters.” City Jubo League President Chandan Dhar also denied his organisation's involvement in publishing Mamun's posters. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) sources said Mamun is an absconding accused and most wanted criminal. Mamun entered the country through Parshuram border of Feni in the last week of August this year. But he went into hiding when there was a news report on his entry into the country. Contacted, Chittagong Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (North) Banaj Kumar Majumder said that Mamun is not in the country. "There is no legal bar to publishing posters with victory greetings. But if Mamun had returned he must have been caught by our forces," said Banaj.