Fugitive Jamaat, Shibir Men
Court asks cops to publish ad in two dailies
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered police to publish an advertisement in two Bangla national dailies asking fugitive Jamaat-e-Islami acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmad and five Jamaat and Shibir men to appear before it by October 30 in a case filed over the party's recent violence in the city.
The names of the dailies could not be known immediately.
Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-14 passed the order as the Jamaat and Shibir leaders and activists failed to surrender before it by yesterday. The order also follows the receipt of reports from different police stations on execution of the arrest warrants issued against them on October 2.
The five other accused are: Jamaat's acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman, Dhaka city chief Rafiqul Islam Khan, and central committee member Prof Mujibur Rahman and Islami Chhatra Shibir's ex-president Fakaruddin Manik and activist Delwar Hossain Saeed.
On September 19, several hundred Jamaat activists clashed with police in Dhaka city, leaving at least 100 people injured, setting fire to at least 28 vehicles, smashing over 200 others, vandalised dozens of roadside shops, and halting traffic for hours.
Later, two cases were filed with Paltan and Ramna police stations against them on charges of assaulting police, blocking traffic movement, and creating anarchy.
On September 29, Sub-Inspector Kamruzzaman of Paltan Police Station, also the investigation officer (IO), pressed charges against Maqbul, Jamaat's former acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam, and 159 others in the case filed with the police station.
The IO also appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against them as they have been absconding while Jamaat's former acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam and 159 others in the case were earlier arrested and they are now in custody.
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