Went to Baitul Mukarram at the request of a DIG-ranked police official: Mamunul tells court
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Mamunul Haque, former joint secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam, today said he went to Baitul Mukarram at the request of a DIG-ranked police official on March 26.
Mamunul was at a mosque in Banglabazar when the police official called him and requested him to reach Baitul Mukarram as a clash was underway between police and Hefajat activists there, the Hefajat leader told the court taking its permission.
After receiving the phone call, he went to Baitul Mukarram where he was requested to deliver a speech to pacify Hefajat men, Mamunul further said.
Hefajat Conundrum: Pro-Shafi leaders eye top posts in new committee Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
A day after the dissolvement of Hefajat-e-Islam s central committee, followers of its late amir Shah Ahmad Shafi have moved to secure top posts in the new committee.
Leaders of the Qawmi-madrasa based organisation said the government was backing the pro-Shafi group to take posts in the new committee. as they are sympathised to the government.
Most of the pro-Shafi leaders were not included in the dissolved committee.
Meanwhile, two cases were filed against Junayed Babunagari on Thursday in connection with the violence in Chattogram s Hathazari upazila during Indian Prime Minister Naranda Modi s visit to Bangladesh.
2013 mayhem in Dhaka: 2 Hefajat leaders remanded
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A Dhaka court today placed two leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam on different terms of remand in two separate cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.
Hefajat s Nayeb-e-Amir Ahmad Abdul Quader was placed on a five-day remand while another leader Mufti Fakhrul Islam was placed on a four-day remand in the two cases filed on May 6, 2013.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the remand orders after two investigation officers of Detective Branch of Police produced the duo before the courts with 10-day remand prayer for each of them.
The central committee of the Qawmi madrasa-based Hefajat-e Islam has been dissolved.
The announcement was made last night by the Islamist outfit s Amir, Junayed Babunagari, through a 1.24-minute video message. The committee has been dissolved on advice of some important members of the central committee, he said in the message from Hathazari madrasa in Chattogram.
The Hefajat amir also said the organisation would run its activities through a convening committee in the coming days.
Hefajat has been under tremendous pressure from the government to restructure its central committee by removing from it those leaders involved in last month s mayhem in different parts of the country, several leaders of the outfit told this newspaper.
Two top Hefajat leaders remanded
Khaled Saifullah Ayubi (L) and Maulana Ihteshamul Haque Sakhi. Photo: collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A Dhaka court today placed two leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam on different periods of remand in two separate cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem and recent violence in Dhaka.
The leaders are, Khaled Saifullah Ayubi, joint secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam and Maulana Ihteshamul Haque Sakhi, joint office secretary of Hefajat.
Khaled Saifullah was placed on a five-day remand in the case filed with Paltan Police Station over the violence on March 26 protesting the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while Sakhi was placed on a four-day remand in the case filed with the same police station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.