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Criminalisation of cop, politics showcased

Victim Joj Miah still in jail, mother sells house for a living

A Correspondent, Noakhali
Joj Miah, a perfect example of victimisation by the police, has already served more than three years in prison. He may be released someday but the damage done to him and his family can never be mended.
Joj's mother Jobeda Khatun, who was heavily dependant on her son's earning, recently sold out the house she lived in for years. In the absence of her son, she had to struggle hard to manage her five-member family. But she finally had to give up in the face of poverty.
"I have to leave the house before Eid-ul-Fitr," said a broken-hearted Jobeda. "Soon we will become rootless."
Nearly a year after the heinous grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004, police arrested Joj Miah in Noakhali and cooked up a story centring him to fulfil the desires of tlieir mentors in die then BNP-led four-party alliancegovernment.
Joj's poor family had no idea when a guard of Kesharpar union picked him up from a local tea stall and handed him over to Senbagh police in Noakhali for a bountyof I k 1,000. And overnight, Joj became the "approver" of the grenade attack and a front-ranking terrorist of the country.
Following his arrest, the then Special Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Ruhul Amin and his colleagues Abdur Rashid and Munshi Atiq asked Jobeda to come to Senbagh Police Station.
But the poor mother did not have money. So, the police gave her the bus fare to the CID office in Dhaka.
Ruhul Amin assured her that she would be provided with Tk 2,000 a month to run her family in the absence of Joj.
Jobeda was sent back home with Tk 2,500.
The conspiracy of the CID officers was revealed when Joj's sister Khorsheda Begum disclosed to the media that they were being paid by the police. This angered the CID officials who then stopped the payment.
"They told me that Joj would be sent abroad after his release," Jobeda quoted a police officer as tellingher.
"My innocent son is a victim of police conspiracy," she said, alleging that the police did not only destroy Joj's future but also her wlTbTeTatrpIy. "*NqwT havenofTun g' to do butto pray for his release."
Jobeda Khatun has called upon the chief adviser and others concerned tohelp get her son out of jail.
Joj, whose "criminality" was invented by the police as a cover-up for the real culprits of the August 21 grenade attack, was relieved of the charges on June 11 but was not freed because, ironically, he is already convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail in another case filed in connection with the same attack.