3 held for threatening to kill judge
They were trying to frame another
Police produce before the media the three, arrested for allegedly threatening to kill a Chittagong judge dealing with the sensational 10-truck arms haul case, at the Detective Branch (DB) office in the capital yesterday.Photo: STAR
Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested three people, including a couple, from the capital on Wednesday for allegedly threatening to kill a Chittagong judge dealing with the sensational 10-truck arms haul case. Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge SM Mojibur Rahman received the death threat in a letter on October 16. The sender, stated in the letter as one Md Shahid Mia from Mirpur in Dhaka, threatened to kill Judge Mojibur if former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was sentenced in the case. A Dhaka court granted a two-day remand for the arrestees -- Hafizur Rahman Jahid, 39, his second wife Hosne Ara Jewel, 36, and his friend Kaniz Fatema, 23, -- said DB Deputy Commissioner Mahbubur Rahman. In an eight-hour drive from 3:00pm, DB arrested Hafizur and Hosne Ara from Mirpur and Kaniz from Mohammadpur, said DB Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Moshiur Rahman. The handwriting on the letter matched that of Kaniz's, said the ADC. Being produced before the media at the DB office, Hafizur said he and Hosne Ara, who got married three months back, planned to punish Hosne Ara's ex-husband, Md Shahid, as he used to disturb the couple. The couple spent their honeymoon in Cox's Bazar. On their way back, they stayed in Chittagong for a day and visited the court area, said Hafizur. In the court, they saw Judge Mojibur holding the hearing on the 10-truck arms haul case and an idea suddenly came up in his mind, he said. He decided to threaten the judge using Shahid's name to implicate him in a case. Afterwards, the couple collected the name and address of the judge and asked Kaniz to write the letter, said Hafizur. Hosne Ara, however, denied her involvement in the plot, saying Hafizur acted alone. Kaniz, on the other hand, claimed that she had an extramarital affair with Hafizur. She confessed to have written the letter on Hafizur's request. The arrestees do not have any relation with any political party, said ADC Moshiur. Hafizur used to cheat people by introducing himself as a deputy secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. He had also made some visiting cards using the identity, he said. After receiving the letter, Judge Mojibur had lodged a general diary with Kotwali Police Station. He is hearing two cases in connection with the arms haul. Babar is one of the key accused in the cases.
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