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March
17, 2001
Brahmanbaria, Mar 16 (UNB) – Police
indicted as many as 78 persons, including Hafez Moulana Idris, an Islamic Oikya Jote leader, for the February 6 violence that left eight people dead.
In the charge sheets, submitted Thursday, 40 persons have been charged under the Public Safety Act for attacking police station while 38 others for assaulting police.
After investigation, police officers Ziaul Alam and Golam Farooq respectively filed the charges.
On the day, Feb 6, Islamic Oikya Jote enforced hartal in the town demanding release of their leader, IOJ secretary general Moulana Fazlul Huq Amini.
Amini was arrested in connection with a police constable murder at a mosque in capital’s Mohammadpur area during hartal on February 3 against NGOs and `murtads’ or infidels.
Later IOJ chief Moulana Azizul Huq was also arrested, besides other activists of the platform of Islamic political groups.
During the strike here, police said, Amini’s agitated supporters stormed thana and attacked law-enforcers triggering violent clashes that also left scores of others injured.
Over the orgies, nine cases were filed of which charge sheets of two cases were submitted Thursday.
District BNP general secretary Alhaj Syed Emranur Reza and another leader of the party, Hafizur Rahman, were exempted from the charges.
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