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Lalmonirhat: A court postponed on Tuesday (October 3) the hearing of a request for the five-day pretrial detention of five people arrested on charges of killing and burning the body of Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was beaten to death in a massive beating in Burimari in Lalmonirhat.
Deputy Assistant Police Inspector (ASI) Zahid Hasan confirmed the information to Bangladeshis around 12 noon on Monday (November 2).
Earlier on Sunday (November 1), around 6 pm, Judge Ferdousi Begum of Lalmonirhat Superior Judicial Court 3 set a pretrial detention hearing on Monday and ordered the defendants to be sent to jail.
The Detective Division (DB) of the district police was charged with investigating the three cases. The DB Mahmudunnabi inspector, the investigating officer on the case, has requested the remand of the five defendants detained in the murder case for five days.
The detainees are Ashraful Alam (22) and Bayazid (24), son of Ismail Hossain from the area, and Yusuf Ali alias Oli.
Hossain’s son, Rafiq (20), Abul Hashem’s son, Masum Ali (35), and Samchijul Haque’s son, Shafiqul Islam (25).
Saiful Islam, Shahidunnabi Jewel’s cousin, filed a case on Saturday (October 31) for spreading rumors of insulting the Koran. The investigating officer DB Inspector Mahmudunnabi requested preventive detention for five days for the five defendants arrested in the case. The court set Monday (November 2) for the hearing on the request for preventive detention and ordered the defendant sent to custody.
Patgram Police Station Deputy Inspector (SI) Shahjahan Ali filed a case for alleged assault on the police and Burimari UP President Abu Saeed Newaz Nishat filed another case for vandalism at Union Parishad (UP). The DB district police were tasked with investigating the three most disputed cases. The police arrested the first five defendants in these cases and sent them to court.
Earlier on Thursday (October 29) afternoon, the attack took place at the Burmemari Bazar Central Jame mosque in Patgram Upazila. The deceased was identified as Shahidunnabi Jewel, son of Abdul Wazed Miah of Shalban Mistripara in Rangpur. He is a former librarian at Rangpur Cantonment Public School and College and alumnus of Dhaka University. He lost some of his mental balance due to being fired last year.
Police and locals said Shahidunnabi Jewel came to visit Burimari on Thursday afternoon with a man named Abdar from Sultan Yobai. In the afternoon, they performed the Asr prayers at the Burimari Central Jame Mosque.
When he came down to the Qur’an Sharif kept in the mosque’s sunset to recite it at the end of prayers, some books of the Qur’an and Hadith inadvertently fell at his feet. At that moment, Jewel took the books of the Qur’an and the Hadith and kissed them. Muazzin had a fight with him over the matter. People in the area rushed to the scene and detained Jewel and Sultan Yobayer in a room in the Union Parishad building next door. Upon receiving the news, Patgram Upazila, president of UNO, OC went to Burimari Union Parishad.
At night, rumors spread throughout the market and the surrounding towns that two young men had been arrested for blasphemy. Excited at this moment, the agitated people smashed the doors and windows of the Union Parishad (UP) building, snatched Jewel from the administration and beat him to death. Later, the locals dragged the body to the Patgram-Burimari road and reduced it to ashes. At that moment, the agitated crowd set the road on fire and blocked it.
Patgram and Hatibandha police, the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and members of the fire service tried to control the situation overnight, but failed. Ten policemen, including the Officer-in-Charge (CO) of the Patgram Police Station, Sumant Kumar Mohant, were injured when bricks and stones thrown by the mob hit them. Police fired 18 rounds to disperse the crowd.
Lalmonirhat Deputy Commissioner Abu Jafar and Police Superintendent (SP) Abida Sultana rushed to the scene with additional police officers around 10:30 pm and controlled the situation. Police have rescued Sultan Yobayer, a companion of the murdered Jewel, in critical condition and admitted him to hospital.
The district administration on Friday formed a three-member investigative committee headed by Additional District Magistrate TMA Momin to investigate the incident. Jewel’s cousin Saiful Alam, Patgram (SI) Police Station Deputy Inspector Shahjahan Ali and Burimari UP President Abu Saeed Newaz Nishat have filed three separate cases. After viewing the video of the incident, the police identified the accused and arrested five people. All those arrested are residents of the Burimari area, police said.
Bangladesh time: 1338 hours, November 2, 2020
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