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Bangladesh Arrests Ex-Lawmaker Over Violence During PM Modi’s Visit: Report


Protests broke out in Bangladesh’s Chittagong in March which led to clashes with the cops. (File)

Dhaka:

A senior chief of the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami group has been arrested in Bangladesh for allegedly instigating violence in March throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the nation, the police mentioned on Sunday.

Shahjahan Chowdhury, who can be a former lawmaker, was arrested from Chatttogram’s Hathazari space on Saturday and was later despatched on three-day police remand by Senior Judicial Justice of the Peace Shahriar Iqbal of the Chittagong Court docket.

“Police yesterday (Saturday) arrested Jamaat chief and ex-MP Shahjahan Chowdhury in (southeastern) Chatttogram discovering his hyperlinks to the mayhem and obtained the court docket order to interrogate him within the custody,” a police spokesman mentioned.

He mentioned Shahjahan Chowdhury, who was elected to parliament through the earlier Bangladesh Nationalist Get together-led four-party alliance with Jamaat being its essential associate, was charged with instigating the violence unleashed by radical outfit Hefazat-e-Islam on March 26 throughout Prime Minister Modi’s go to to Bangladesh.

“We’ve proof of Shahjahan’s involvement with the violence and vandalism executed by Hefazat males on March 26 and 27 through the protests in opposition to Indian Prime Minister Modi’s go to. He was arrested within the instances filed with the Hathazari police station,” the Chittagong district police chief was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune.

On March 26, a minimum of 4 folks have been killed and several other others have been injured in clashes amongst Hefazat supporters, police, and ruling occasion activists in Chittagong.

PM Modi was in Dhaka then on a two-day go to to hitch the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the delivery centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Hefazat activists have been concerned in widespread violence and vandalism in Hathazari round PM Modi’s go to, together with an assault on the native police station. Members of the Qawmi madrasa-based radical organisation have been additionally concerned in acts of vandalism and arson of the federal government places of work.

Over the previous 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.

Shahjahan Chowdhury is a former chief of the Chattogram Metropolitan department of Jamaat and a member of the group’s Central Majlish-e-Shura. He was elected a member of parliament from the Satkania-Lohagara seat through the BNP-Jamaat alliance authorities.

The Jamaat chief has been accused in practically 20 instances associated to violence at completely different occasions. He was beforehand arrested in 2018 for “instigation” through the pupil highway protest motion, bdnews24.com reported.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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