Nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat, 35 others sued in Bagerhat

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-ameer AKM Yusuf and 35 others have been sued on charges of killing freedom fighters, setting fire to a house and looting valuables from it during Liberation War in 1971.
Khadija Begum of Dakkhin Rajapur village under Sharonkhola upazila of Bagerhat filed the case with Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court yesterday noon.
The court ordered the officer-in-charge of Sharonkhola Police Station to record the case as an ejahar.
The plaintiff in her statement said the accused, led by Jamaat leader AKM Yusuf and Miah Abbas Uddin, set up a camp on the first floor of new thana building at Rayenda Bazar of the upazila in 1971 and killed some freedom fighters at the camp.
On June 7, 1971, a group of freedom fighters, including her husband Ismail Hossain Hawlader and Asmat Munshi of Khuriakhali village, attacked the camp, she said.
Both sides traded bullets and at one stage the accused caught the freedom fighters, including Ismail Hossain Hawlader and Asmat Munshi, and beat them dead, she added.
The plaintiff alleged that the accused on June 8, 1971 attacked her house, looted rice, cash, gold ornaments and other valuables and set the house afire.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sharonkhola Police Station Nizam Uddin said he will take necessary steps as per directives of the court.