Ahmadiyya Imam: Three sued over attack
A case has been filed against three people in connection with Monday's attack on an imam of the Khanpur Ahmadiyya mosque in Mymensingh's Ishwarganj.
Hazari Ahmad Al-Munim, acting imam of the mosque, on Tuesday night lodged the case with Ishwarganj Police Station, accusing three people, including one Abdul Ahad Mohammadullah, who was caught by locals from the spot.
Police were yet to ascertain the motive behind the attack, said Badrul Alam Khan, officer-in-charge of Ishwarganj Police Station.
The OC said Ahad was yet to be quizzed as he was not fit for interrogation.
Ahad, now undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), was recovering well, doctors said.
Ahad, 23, of Charia village in Netrakona's Kalmakanda, is a student of Sunnah Jamia Gaforia Madrasa in Ishwarganj.
Two of his classmates -- Johirul Islam and Elias Uddin from Majhiakandi and Ashrabpur villages in Ishwarganj -- were with him during the attack, police said, quoting Ahad and locals.
The two other accused in the case are Johirul and Elias. Police were trying to arrest them, said the OC.
On Monday night, criminals hacked imam Mustafizur Rahman, 32, on the mosque yard. With injuries to his neck, back, hands and other parts of the body, Mustafizur is being treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
“Mustafizur is still in the ICU. His condition is improving,” Ahmad Tabshir Chowdhury, national public relations secretary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh, told this newspaper yesterday.
Talking to journalists on Tuesday at the MMCH, Ahad claimed that the attackers had no link with any political party and that no party or organisation helped them in carrying out the attack.
Ahad, Johirul and Elias were expelled from Sunnah Jamia Gaforia Madrasa following the incident, said Vice-Principal Mufti Nazim Uddin.
Police detained Ahad's wife Joshnara Begum and his two brothers Ainuddin and Mainuddin from his Netrakona village for interrogation, and they were handed over to the Detective Branch (DB) of police in Mymensingh.
They were freed on Tuesday night after interrogation as police did not find their involvement in the incident, said Imarat Hossain Gazi, officer-in-charge of Mymensingh DB police.