& 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

No proceedings yet against Galib, others

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
The Rajshahi police surprisingly ran out of gas yesterday, a day after their highly-publicised arrest of Dr Asadullah Al Galib and his top three associates on charges of spearheading an Islamist militancy in northern Bangladesh.
No case was filed nor any official proceedings taken yesterday against Galib, an Arabic department teacher at Rajshahi University and the chief of the Islamist militant outfit Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab). The three might be taken to Bogra for quizzing, police sources said.
Galib, his second-in command Ahab Nayeb-e-Amir Shaikh Abdus Samad Salafi, Ahab General Secretary Moulana Nurul Islam and Organising Secretary ASM Azizullah are being held in separate cells inside the Rajshahi central jail. Police sources say the proceedings cannot continue due to jurisdictional limits. "They were arrested following
a requisition from three police stations in Bogra and Gopalganj districts. And so, the district police stations concerned will take any next actions for interrogation," said RMP DC West Rawshan Ara.
Meanwhile, the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP), following a directive from high-ups in Dhaka, are now investigating how the electronic media obtained video footage of the arrestees while they were under court custody. Senior RMP officials interrogated at least 12 policemen in this regard and said actions could be taken against those responsible.
"The government felt embarrassed because Galib said in video footage that the government made the arrests following international pressure," said a source at RMP. Investigators are now probing whether Galib and his group were involved in the murder of Professor Muhammad Yunus, the former Rajshahi University Bangabandhu
SEE PAGE 11 COL 7 FROM PAGE 1
Parishad president.
Prof Yunus, who was murdered last year by unknown assailants, had issued Galib a show cause notice in 1998 asking why he went to India with a business passport without first obtaining the authority's no objection certificate. Sources said Galib stayed in India for 11 days in 1997 when Yunus was the RU register.
Prof Yunus' death is one of the controversies surrounding Galib. Intelligence information reveals that the professor is connected to a web of controversial militants both at home and abroad, using his network of madrasas and organisations to harbour and assist many of them.
Abdur Razzak Salafi, an Indian National wanted by the Indian government for militant activities, came to Rajshahi in the mid-90s and took shelter at Galib's madrasa as a teacher.
Another militant, Abdur Razzak of Moshinda Shikarpara at Gurudaspur in Natore, who underwent militant training in Pakistan and was later sentenced to prison by the Indian government in 1996, came to Galib in Rajshahi with a large cache of jihad and arms training related books.
Galib appointed him a teacher at his Naodapara Salafi Madrasa, a controversial school where he trained a number of students in the armed struggle for jihad until 1999.
The madrasa authorities provided lethal weapon running and karate training to some 500 students until 1998, when they were forced to expel 12 for training students following protests from several other teachers. Madrasa teacher Shamsul Alam confirmed the training and said it was intended for self-defence.
Yet another of Galib's associates, Abdur Rouf of Nashipur at Gabtoli upazila in Bogra, who was
the Rajshahi district president of Ahab, went missing for two years beginning in 1997. Some teachers of the madrasa suspected that he was sent abroad for training. When he returned, he was made principal of the Ahab-sponsored madrasa at Nashipur and was later made the Bogra district president of Ahab.
One Akhtar Hussain was trained in Pakistan and came to Rajshahi in 1995 to work as a teacher at the Ahab-sponsored madrasa at Satkhira. He was then sent to Saudi Arabia in 1998, and was later made a teacher at the Nashipur madrasa in 2002.
Another Salafi madrasa teacher, Abdur Razzak Bin Yusuf, was also trained in India and was well known as an outspoken extremist.
Galib's other close associates include Indian militant leader Abdul Matin Salafi, who was expelled from Bangladesh in 1988 for anti-state activities. The two traveled extensively together throughout the country in the early 80s with a mission to launch an Islamic movement.
Sources named the Saudi organisation Hayatul Igachha as well as the Kuwait organisation Jomiyatul Eh-ya-e turaj (Revival of Islamic Heritage Society) as the main funding agencies for Ahab.
Ahab's youth organisation AH Jubo Shangha now has more than 50,000 activists across the country, all of them active in Jama'atul Mujahidin Bangladesh since 1994.
Intelligence branches have been reporting against Galib's underground activities since 1997, but two ministers of the Awami League government, as well as a present minister from Rajshahi, the Rajshahi city mayor and two Jamaat lawmakers of Satkhira have repeatedly protected Galib through certificates issued at various times.