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SUSPECTED LINKS TO EXTREMISTS

A number of cops of SW region under watch

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Khulna
A number of senior police officials including three superintendents of police (SP) in southwestern region are under watch for suspected close links to extremists.
The suspects include some police officials of the rank and status of additional SP and ASP, two assistant commissioners of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) and six officers-in-charge of police stations.
Former additional SP Mofazzel Hossain, now in Dhaka Central Jail, had made these disclosures when quizzed by Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC), sources said yesterday.
Mofazzel named some financial beneficiaries of extremists in the police department in Khulna Division. Fear of losing job and leakage of their secret links with extremists is now haunting a number of police officials in the region,
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the sources mentioned.
SP of Khulna Habibur Rahman was reportedly barred from a closed-door meeting chaired by Khulna range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Abdul Aziz Sarker at his office on Thursday, sparking off speculations about him.
KMP Commissioner Javed Patwary, three deputy commissioners (DC) of KMP, Additional DIG Sohrab Hossain and Director of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Colonel Farhad Hossain attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, arrested outlaws Rafiqul Islam Hasan and Merajul Islam Meraj in their confessional statements before Khulna metropolitan magistrate Atiqul Haque on Thursday said Mofazzel had planned and financed three attempts on the life of Khulna bureau chief of Dainik Jugantor Dip Azad in December last and on January 3 and 4 this year.
They also gave some important information on the February 5 bomb attack on Khulna Press Club premises that killed local bureau chief of Dainik Sangram Belaluddin and injured three other journalists.
The two outlaws now on police remand are being quizzed on Belal murder.
DC of KMP Akbar Ali, quoting confessional statements of Hasan and Meraj, said Mofazzel gave arms
and money to outlaws to kill Dip Azad. He also gave them Tk 2,000 to buy bomb-making materials and bombs were made at Jalma Police Camp in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna district.
Mofazzel will be brought to Khulna in the case concerning January 4 bomb attack on Dip Azad, Akbar told local journalists on Thursday.