Rahim took charge of the police station on August 31 last year.
His transfer came a month after Hefajat-e-Islam activists carried out violence in Brahmanbaria on March 26 centring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
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Police have arrested 10 activists of Hefajat-e-Islam including its Brahmanbaria district unit's assistant publicity affairs secretary Mufti Maulana Zakaria Khan in connection with the mayhem in the district from March 26 to 28.
Hefajat mayhem: 2 imams arrested for ‘spreading rumours’ in Brahmanbaria
Two imams arrested in connection with cases filed over Brahmanbaria mayhem. Photo: Collected
Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
Two imams have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumour and taking part in Hefajat-incited violence in Brahmanbaria, according to a press release sent from the Special Branch of the district police.
Delwar Hossain Belali, a member of Hefajat district committee and Imam of Bangabandhu High School Jame Mosque; and Iqbal Hossain, Imam of Harinadi Jame Mosque, were arrested at Ghatura village early today.
According to the police, the duo spread rumour over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s recent visit to Bangladesh. They joined in the violence and also provoked Hefajat men to carry on subversive activities by giving announcements from the respective mosques during the mayhem.
EFSAS Commentary
Sun Online Desk
25th April, 2021 06:58:43
They were the same country till 1971, when the overbearance and domination of the Urdu-speaking West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) over Bengali speaking East Pakistan (Bangladesh) became so insufferable and unfeasible that it catalyzed a popular movement in Bangladesh that eventually won the country its hard-earned freedom. The benefits of that independence have found expression in most facets of Bangladesh’s development, while the truncated Pakistan has continued hurtling down the slippery slope that it began descending much before the war to liberate Bangladesh broke out. This is true also of the attitudes and the policies that the two Muslim-majority countries have chosen to adopt vis-à-vis terrorism and extremism. Bangladesh, without doubt, has had periods in its 50-year existence when it encouraged, sheltered and promoted extremists and terrorists. That is especially true of the earlier phase, when remnants of Pa
3 Hefajat leaders held, 3 more on remand
Maulana Khurshid Alam Quasemi. Photo: Collected
Star Report
Star Report
Three Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were arrested in connection the cases filed over violence in 2013 and March this year, and four more, including three top Hefajat leaders, were placed on remand yesterday.
The Detective Branch of police yesterday arrested Hefajat s Assistant Secretary General and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish Nayeb-e-Amir Khurshid Alam Kasemi from his house in the capital s Mohammadpur yesterday afternoon, said Mahbub Alam, joint commissioner (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Khelafat Majlish s Joint Secretary Mufti Sharafat Hossain was held from Mirpur area around 5:00pm. He was involved in the Hefajat s violence in 2013 and March this year, Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner (DB-Gulshan) of DMP, told The Daily Star.