4 Jamaat leaders denied bail
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla in four criminal cases filed with different police stations.
The cases were filed with Paltan, Bimanbandar and Ramna police stations in February and June this year and February 2004 on charges of vandalising president's vehicles, preventing police from discharging their duties and making an attempt to kill late Prof Humayun Azad.
Of the cases, three were filed with Paltan on February 12 and June 27, one with Bimanbandar on June 9 and the other one was filed with Ramna on February 27, 2004.
Mojahid was accused of holding 'a secret meeting' with various government officials at the Artisan Ceramics Ltd business office of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, in the city's Uttara area on November 24 of 2006.
Sayedee was accused of making an attempt to kill late Prof Humayun Azad on February 27, 2004 while Kamaruzzaman and Quader Molla were accused of vandalising president's vehicles and preventing police from discharging their duties.
Judge (In Charge) Ismail Hossain of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after the lawyers of the four Jamaat leaders submitted bail petitions against the rejection order of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on different dates.
Mojahid and Seyedee were arrested on June 29 after a Dhaka court issued arrest warrants against them in connection with a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims while Kamaruzzaman and Quader Molla were arrested on July 13 in connection with a case filed with Pallabi police for killing 345 people during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
Later they were shown arrested in a dozen of criminal cases and remanded for several days for their alleged involvement with different charges.
Sayedee was sent to jail yesterday on completion of his 12-day remand in five phases in the case on an attempt to kill Humayun Azad.
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