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ASP's bail prayer rejected

Outlaw links him to attack on journo

COURT CORRESPONDENT
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petition of former additional superintendent of police in Khulna Mofazzel Hossain, who was arrested on Wednesday at city's Moham-madpur area.
Earlier on Tuesday he was disciplined for allegedly harbouring an outlawed party operative and assaulting Rapid Action Battalion
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(Rab) men at his office. Rab men went there to arrest outlawed party cadre Hasan on Monday night.
Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mohammad Mojibul Haq passed the order and sent Mofazzel Hossain to Dhaka Central Jail. He also directed the authorities concerned to send the necessary documents to Khulna Sadar Police Station.
The former additional SP of Khulna tried to cover his face when Mohammadpur police produced him in handcuffs before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka, at 1:00pm.
Saifur Rahman, Officer-in Charge (OC) of Mohammadpur Police Station, in the forwarding report said they arrested Hossain at a house on Azam Road of Mohammadpur after Khulna Sadar police had sent a requisition slip regarding two cases, one filed under Explosive Substances Act and the other one for attempted murder.
Besides, Iqbal Hossain Swadhin, an operative of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (Janajuddho), had given a statement linking the former additional police super Mofazzel with bomb attack on Jugantar Journalist Dip Azad, the OC said.
Advocate AKM Alamgir, lawyer for Hossain, submitted the bail petition. He argued that his client had been fitted up for criminal acts
for harassment.
After hearing both the sides, the court rejected the bail petition and ordered to send him to jail.
Sources said he might have links to the bomb attack that killed journalist Shaikh Belaluddin and injured three others on Khulna Press Club premises last week.
A three-member committee, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Aziz Sarkar, had been formed to investigate the incident.
Our staff correspondent adds: Mofazzel was shown arrested for bomb attack on Dip Azad, the Khulna Bureau Chief of Dainik Jugantar, on January 4. Dip Azad survived the attempt on his life, as the bomb did not explode. A case was filed with Khulna Police Station on January 5.
Iqbal Hossain Swadhin made the confessional statement to CMM Atiqul Huq when he was produced before the CMM Court, Khulna on Wednesday afternoon. He said Mofazzel Hossain connived with Hasan and some other PBCP cadres to kill Dip Azad.
Swadhin was taken on a five-day remand yesterday in the Belaluddin murder case and bomb blast on press club premises. He is a charge-sheeted accused also in Dainik Janmabhumi editor Humayun Kabir Balu murder case.