Senior Jamaat chief arrested in Bangladesh for instigating violence throughout PM Modi’s talk over with
A senior chief of the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami team has been arrested in Bangladesh for allegedly instigating violence in March throughout High Minister Narendra Modi’s talk over with to the rustic, police stated on Sunday.
Shahjahan Chowdhury, who may 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 by way of Senior Judicial Justice of the Peace Shahriar Iqbal of the Chittagong Court docket.
“Police the day prior to this (Saturday) arrested Jamaat chief and ex-MP Shahjahan Chowdhury in (southeastern) Chatttogram discovering his hyperlinks to the mayhem and received the court docket order to interrogate him within the custody,” a police spokesman stated.
He stated Chowdhury, who used to be elected to parliament throughout the former Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance with Jamaat being its an important spouse, used to be charged with instigating the violence unleashed by way of radical outfit Hefazat-e-Islam on March 26 throughout High Minister Modi’s talk over with to Bangladesh.
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“We’ve proof of Shahjahan’s involvement with the violence and vandalism performed by way of Hefazat males on March 26 and 27 throughout the protests towards Indian High Minister Modi’s talk over with. He used to be arrested within the instances filed with the Hathazari police station,” the Chittagong district police leader used to be quoted as pronouncing by way of the Dhaka Tribune.
On March 26, no less than 4 other people had been killed and several other others had been injured in clashes amongst Hefazat supporters, police, and ruling party activists in Chittagong.
Modi used to be in Dhaka then on a two-day talk over with to enroll in the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the beginning centenary of Father of the Country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Hefazat activists had been concerned with well-liked violence and vandalism in Hathazari round Modi’s talk over with, together with an assault at the native police station. Participants of the Qawmi madrasa-based radical organisation had been additionally concerned with acts of vandalism and arson of presidency workplaces.
During the last few weeks, Bangladesh has arrested dozens of leaders belonging to the Hefazat outfit. On March 30, police filed a complete of six instances over the violence, accusing a number of thousand unnamed suspects.
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 throughout the BNP-Jamaat alliance govt.
The Jamaat chief has been accused in just about 20 instances associated with violence at other instances. He used to be prior to now arrested in 2018 for ‘instigation’ throughout the coed highway protest motion, bdnews24.com reported.
