Bangladesh Arrests Ex-Lawmaker Over Violence All through PM Modi’s Consult with: Record
Protests broke out in Bangladesh’s Chittagong in March which resulted in clashes with the law enforcement officials. (Record)
Dhaka:
A senior chief of the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami workforce has been arrested in Bangladesh for allegedly instigating violence in March all through Top Minister Narendra Modi’s seek advice from to the rustic, the police mentioned on Sunday.
Shahjahan Chowdhury, who could also be a former lawmaker, used to be arrested from Chatttogram’s Hathazari space on Saturday and used to be later despatched on three-day police remand through Senior Judicial Justice of the Peace Shahriar Iqbal of the Chittagong Court docket.
“Police the day past (Saturday) arrested Jamaat chief and ex-MP Shahjahan Chowdhury in (southeastern) Chatttogram discovering his hyperlinks to the mayhem and got the courtroom order to interrogate him within the custody,” a police spokesman mentioned.
He mentioned Shahjahan Chowdhury, who used to be elected to parliament all through the former Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance with Jamaat being its a very powerful spouse, used to be charged with instigating the violence unleashed through radical outfit Hefazat-e-Islam on March 26 all through Top Minister Modi’s seek advice from to Bangladesh.
“We’ve proof of Shahjahan’s involvement with the violence and vandalism completed through Hefazat males on March 26 and 27 all through the protests towards Indian Top Minister Modi’s seek advice from. He used to be arrested within the circumstances filed with the Hathazari police station,” the Chittagong district police leader used to be quoted as pronouncing through the Dhaka Tribune.
On March 26, no less than 4 folks have been killed and several other others have been injured in clashes amongst Hefazat supporters, police, and ruling party activists in Chittagong.
PM Modi used to be in Dhaka then on a two-day seek advice from to enroll in the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the start centenary of Father of the Country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Hefazat activists have been serious about fashionable violence and vandalism in Hathazari round PM Modi’s seek advice from, together with an assault at the native police station. Contributors of the Qawmi madrasa-based radical organisation have been additionally serious about acts of vandalism and arson of the federal government places of work.
Over the last few weeks, Bangladesh has arrested dozens of leaders belonging to the Hefazat outfit. On March 30, police filed a complete of six circumstances over the violence, accusing a number of thousand unnamed suspects.
Shahjahan Chowdhury is a former leader of the Chattogram Metropolitan department of Jamaat and a member of the gang’s Central Majlish-e-Shura. He used to be elected a member of parliament from the Satkania-Lohagara seat all through the BNP-Jamaat alliance govt.
The Jamaat chief has been accused in just about 20 circumstances associated with violence at other instances. He used to be up to now arrested in 2018 for “instigation” all through the coed street protest motion, bdnews24.com reported.
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