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28 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Court Correspondent

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including its chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed to appear before it on June 29 in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Talukder passed the order after a process surveyor submitted reports saying that family members and representatives of five leaders refused to receive the court summons. The three other accused are Jamaat-e-Islami Nayebe Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Rafiqul Islam Khan and city unit Shibir president ASM Yahia. In his report, Mohammad Hassan said he had gone to the addresses of the five leaders at different places in the city on three consecutive dates to serve summons, but their family members and representatives did not receive those. The same court yesterday also rejected a petition submitted by complainant of the case seeking issuance of arrest warrants against the five leaders for not appearing before it yesterday. Syed Rezaul Haque, secretary general of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on March 21. But the same court on March 30 summoned the five Jamaat leaders to appear before it on April 27 in this case. The case stated that Dhaka city unit Jamaat chief Rafiqul Islam Khan compared Nizami with Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) at a discussion on March 17, which hurt the emotions of Muslims.