Arrest warrant against Amini, four others
A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant against Fazlul Haque Amini, chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), and four others in a madrasa student assault case.
The court also directed the Detective Branch of police to conduct further investigations into the case and submit the probe report.
It further directed the police authorities to take departmental action against the three previous investigators who had dropped the names of the five from the charge sheet even though specific allegations were found against the accused.
The three investigators are sub-inspectors Shafiqul Islam, Moqbul Hossain and Sheikh Abdul Motaleb.
Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman asked Lalbagh police to arrest the accused as Hafez Maulana Sharif Hossain, complainant of the case, submitted a no-confidence (naraji) petition before the court yesterday saying that Amini and four others had been trying to intimidate him into withdrawing the case.
Sharif Hossain, a student of Hossain Ashraful Ulum Madrasa in the city's Chwakbazar, filed the case with Lalbagh Police Station on May 16, 2008.
In the case statement, the complainant said he was assaulted by a group of leaders and activists of IOJ, including the five, as he refused to participate in a rally of the party at Lalbagh in Old Dhaka on the day.
The four who are also facing arrest warrants are Mohammad Raihan, Abul Khair, Mufti Md Sayeed and Jakir Hossain, activists of the IOJ.
The investigation officer submitted a charge sheet before the court dropping the names of Amini and four others on December 7 in 2010.
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