Ex-Jamaat MP Shahjahan Chy held
Police yesterday arrested former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shahjahan Chowdhury on charges of September 19 vandalism and assaulting police personnel in Chittagong.
Syed Nurul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of police, told The Daily Star that the Ramna police picked up Shahjahan, former MP of Satkania in Chittagong, around 3:30pm in front of the High Court in the capital.
Shahjahan, also a Majlish-e-Shura member of Jamaat's central committee, was on his way to the court to arrange bail in cases filed for violence that left at least five people, including an assistant commissioner of police, wounded and seven vehicles shattered on September 19, police sources said.
Hundreds of Jamaat men took to the streets on that day as part of their country-wide demonstrations to demand release of their top leaders who are behind bars on war crime charges. They clashed with police at Bahaddarhat crossing in the port city.
The Jamaat leader was taken to the DB police headquarters on Minto Road. He would be handed over to Chittagong police, said Nurul Islam.
Shahjahan was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in 2008 for a graft case related to the import of a sport utility vehicle under duty-free quota.
He is also accused in several other cases including two for murder.
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