JCD man killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab
A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader was killed in a "gunfight" with Rab in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla early yesterday.
The dead, Solaiman Uddin Jisan, 32, of Latifpur village in Laxmipur Sadar upazila, was the former library affairs secretary of Laxmipur district unit JCD, the pro-BNP student body.
With this, four people, three JCD leaders and a Jamaat leader, were killed in such "shootouts" with law enforcement agencies after the BNP-led alliance enforced the nationwide blockade since January 6.
Jisan stood accused in at least 50 criminal cases, including killing, abduction and extortion, filed with different police stations, said Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Chandarganj Police Station in Laxmipur.
According to police, Jisan led a criminal gang named after him. However, his maternal uncle Abdul Alim said all the cases filed against the JCD leader were politically motivated, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
"Jisan was picked up and shot dead for his political connections," he claimed.
Around 1:45am yesterday, a patrol team of Rapid Action Battalion-11 signalled Jisan to stop at Jigatola on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway when he was returning to Laxmipur from Dhaka by motorcycle, said Anamul Haque, a sub-inspector of Daudkandi Police Station, a correspondent of Daudkandi adds.
“As he did not stop, another team of the Rab tried to intercept Jisan. He then fired two shots at the elite force. The Rab men were compelled to fire back,” the police official said.
Anamul said Jisan was hit by bullets and died on the spot around 4:00am.
The police official claimed a pistol, a bullet and a motorbike were recovered from the spot.
Kazi Rokeya Begum, a member of Chandarganj Union Parishad, said Jisan was active in BNP politics and allegedly involved in criminal activities.
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