[ALOCHONA] FW: Azhar, 239 Jamaat men charged :This is Too Much--editorial asia post

 

 

 

 

Azhar, 239 Jamaat men charged :This is Too Much

Police yesterday pressed charges against Jamaat-e-Islami acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam and 239 other party men for assaulting police, blocking traffic and creating anarchy in the capital early this month.The investigation officers submitted charge sheets of the two cases to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka. The cases were filed in connection with the street violence by Jamaat men on September 19.Court sources said the charge sheets will be placed before two courts on October 2 for acceptance.

Several hundred Jamaat workers  clashed with police after  police obstructed a Jamaat rally demanding release of their top leaders who are behind bars on war crimes charges.Police then arrested 261 Jamaat men including Azharul and Tasneem in this connection from steets, from residences and student messes..At least 20 cases were filed, including nine in capital's Ramna and Paltan police stations, accusing several thousand Jamaat leaders and workers of torching and damaging vehicles, destroying public properties and attacking law enforcers.Meanwhile, Azharul, Tasneem and two others yesterday obtained bail in another case filed for torching vehicles and preventing policemen from discharging their duties at Kakrail Crossing on September 20.

This is overdoing by partisan police. Only a few days before hundreds of transports were damaged by Jagannath University students , the police  arrested a few and later released them all. They did not take any body on remand. Before the stock market in Dhaka, every now and then the small investors demonstrate , obstruct traffic and damage transports but police never took any body on remand .In Hartals in the past called by parties, many times transports and properties are damaged, clashes take place between police and strikers but the police never file case against whole party leadership of Awami League or BNP.Why this is being done now?Entire Jamaat leadership who were not present in the place of occurrence, have been accused and chargesheeted.This is unfair to the extreme. We ask the government to be fair in its treatment of a major opposition and Islamic party.

 

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