Ex-Hefajat assist secy held in Hathazari

Police yesterday arrested former Hefajat-e Islam leader Nasir Uddin Munir in Chattogram's Hathazari over the organisation's mayhem at Hathazari on March 26.   

Abdullah Al Masum, additional SP (DSB) of Chattogram district police, told The Daily Star that Nasir was arrested from Hathazari about 3:20pm in cases filed over the violence by Hefajat men.

Assistant secretary of the dissolved Qawmi madrasa-based organisation, Nasir stands accused in at least six cases filed with Hathazari Police Station. He is now being interrogated. He would be produced before a Chattogram court soon, said the police officer.

Ten cases were filed with the police station against over 100 Hefajat leaders, including its chief Mohammad Junayed Babunagari, and BNP activists. Over 6,000 unidentified persons were also accused in the cases.

On March 26, four people, including three madrasa students, were killed at Hathazari as Hefajat men and police clashed during the demonstration against the visit of Indian PM Narendra Modi.

Modi came to join the concluding ceremony of a programme marking the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence and birth centenary of the country's founding president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.