& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Al Hiqma chief sent to Dhaka for JIC interrogation

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Self-proclaimed Al Hiqma chief Sayed Kawsar Hussain Siddiki Raja and his five associates arrested on Saturday at Boalia Police Station were sent to Dhaka yesterday for interrogation by a joint interrogation cell (JIC).
The six activists of the banned Islamist militant group Shahadat-e-A1 Hiqma will be brought back to Rajshahi within a week as the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Rajshahi, Abul Hossain on Sunday placed them on a seven-day remand.
Before leaving for the capital, Kawsar once again made appeal for not bringing a fresh sedition charge against him for which Rajshahi police have already started working.
"The judge, the police brothers, my parents, my sister and wife -all scolded me and cried for me, but I never listened to them. If I am released this time, I will be keeping aloof from Al Hiqma," the 20-year-old Al Hiqma chief said.
Asked about the party patrons and donors, Kawsar remained silent for a while and smilingly said, "Gathering information from me is not that easy."
A top official of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) said he did not believe that Kawsar is mad or merely a cheat that many RMP officials have started to believe. "Kawsar and his group might have a strong network," hesaid.
The RMP official said Kawsar could hide himself for one and a half years and even managed bail in the sedition case. "Above all he was daring enough to appear in public again.. ..He might have some foreign link," an investigator told The Daily Star.
The police, meanwhile, failed to nab Hussain Bin Abdul Latif, another operative of the Al Hiqma, who had passed many years in the US and Japan, he said. Hussain's father-in-law is a retired police official and his wife works as police source.
The police have started a fresh investigation into Al Hiqma activities as previous investigation reports could not help them much in bringing in a fresh sedition charge against the militant leader Kawsar and his associates.
"We have already sent our forces to find out the patrons of Al Hiqma and those who are providing shelters to its workers in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Naogaon,” a senior intelligence official told The DailyStar.
On November 6, police arrested Kawsar and five of his men after they stormed Boalia Police Station in the city to seek an explanation of the police who barred them from holding a press conference at a local community centre.
Before leaving for Rajshahi, the Al Hiqma activists gathered at the house of Ataur, a BDR informer, at Mominpur village in Nachol upazila of Chapainawabganj district, police said quoting the arrestees.
Arrestee Zakaria told the police that Mujib alias Qaari (another arrestee), a BNP leader, had invited him on November 5 to go to Rajshahi with Kawsar.
•"As I had respect for Mujib, I did not hesitate to go with him. But I never heard of Al Hiqma," said Zakaria who passed Dakhil examinations in 1999.
But Mujib said that Kawsar had invited him to go to Rajshahi as he (Kawsar) was taking the hired microbus to Rajshahi almost empty. Mujib said he agreed to Kawsar's proposal to see his grandmother-inlaw in Rajshahi city.
Arrestees Anwar and Mohsin have similar stories as they said they had come with Kawsar just to see their relatives in Rajshahi following a transport strike. But Ismail, another arrestee, told the police that he was offered Tk 30 for going to Rajshahi with the group.