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Dozens of Bangla Bhai cases stalled

Cops 'fail' to find witnesses; victims, families talk of police indifference

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Police made almost no progress last year in investigating 22 murder and innumerable torture cases by Bangla Bhai's Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), submitting only one final report for one case and one chargesheet in another.
'Lack of complainants, evidence and witnesses' are the terms Noor Muhammad, Rajshahi Range police's DIG, used to explain the aforesaid lack of progress. But victims of the attacks as well as their
families pointed the finger at police indifference.
"Bangla Bhai and his group tortured people by hanging them upside down from trees in front of the police," described a torture victim at Bagmara, who met with this correspondent early this month. He added, "The police's SP, Masud Mia, did not hear any complaints against Bangla's men. So, why should they investigate the cases?"
According to a list prepared by Ain O Salish Kendro, a total of 22 murders and a number of tortures
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were reported between April 1 and July 31 in 2004.
Of the pending cases, police have so far submitted only the final report in the murder case of Wasim Osman Babu of Palashey in Bagmara, who was killed on March 31 last year.
ABM Golam Kibria, officer-in-charge of the Bagmara police station, explained the dearth of follow-up by quoting Sub Inspector Karim, the investigating officer of the case, who claimed that no-one was interested in filing a case for the murder. "We also could not find any witnesses."
Meanwhile, still under investigation are the cases involving the murders of Abdul Quayuum Badsha, Khejur Ali, Afzal Hossain, Mosarraf Hossain, Ziaul Haque Zia of Raninagar upazila and Sheikh Farid, Diponkor Roy of Atrai in Naogaon, Golam Rabbani Mukul of Kanapara, Ali Akbor of Taherpur in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi and Saifur of Peergachha in Natore
The police themselves have filed all the above murder cases, except
those of Diponkor and Ali Akbor, and are yet to find witnesses for any of the cases, the police said.
Family members of the murdered and tortured expressed a combination of frustration and alarm at police handling, describing an attitude of indifference among the police.
Mustafa, a brother of Golam Rabbani Mukul, who was killed after being tortured on April 1, alleged that police did not record his brother's case.
"JMJB cadres played his (Mukul) cry of torture through loudspeakers, but the police denied my case even then," said Mustafa.
Another family member, a relative of Badshah, said, "Badshah and Khejur were murdered after making a daylong announcement on loudspeakers and people were openly invited to witness their deaths. But still the investigators could not find any witnesses."
Police have so far submitted only one chargesheet against Zamal along with two persons named as Abdul Kuddus in the murder case of
Yasin Ali of Kunapara Maria in Bagmara.
Yasin was kidnapped and beaten to death while hanging upside down from a tree in front of Kodapara Madrassha on June 29, 2004.
"Police did not listen to me when I told them about witnesses who saw Ammar of Khoirabari, Shahadat of Chapainawabganj and Sohrab Master of Kodapara along with the three charge-sheeted accused kill my brother," said Ibrahim, the complainant in the Yasin murder case.
"Police told me to inform them whenever I see Yasin's killers, but they have never come when I called," Ibrahim told this correspondent yesterday during a visit to Bagmara.
The Ain O Salish Kendro list also named one Rabeya, who committed suicide on May 14, 2004, a day after a JMJB cadre raped her.
It also reported that three unidentified victims were killed in Atrai on May 5, while the bodies of three unidentified youths were found at Basudevpur of Natore.