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Cops prevent Jamaat from holding rally with corpse

900 opposition men sued in Rajshahi

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Jamaat-e-Islami activist Shafiqul Islam, shot to death during Monday's clashes in Rajshahi, was buried at Hatim Khan graveyard under police protection yesterday, foiling an alleged attempt by the party to bring out a procession with his body.
After an autopsy was performed on Shafiqul at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital around noon, law enforcers handed over the body to the family and the party, said Assistant Commissioner (Boalia Zone) Nurul Islam.
But as Jamaat men tried to hold the procession, police took the body back and carried it to Shafiqul's village home Basua Achintola in Rajshahi.
It was brought to Hatim Khan, five kilometres off the city, after namaz-e-janaza, he added.
Monzur Rahman, younger brother of Shafiqul, denied any attempt to bring out such a procession. He claimed that the Jamaat men just wanted to carry the body on their shoulders and walk to the graveyard.
AC Nurul Islam said police wanted to avoid any untoward incident. They allowed all relatives and party men to attend the funeral.
Meanwhile, the autopsy report on Shafiqul Islam has confirmed that a bullet from a small firearm had hit Shafiqul, resulting in heavy bleeding.
Mansur Rahman, chief of a three-member medical board formed to prepare the report, told The Daily Star last evening that the bullet had entered the body at the lower portion of the chest and went out by the back near the neck. The report was handed over to police.
Yesterday, police sued 900 opposition activists in connection with Monday's violence as the BNP-led alliance observed a peaceful hartal in the city.
Hafizur Rahman, a subinspector of Boalia Police Station, filed two separate cases against 900 activists of the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami with the police station in the early hours.
The complainant named 16 accused in the cases.
Of the cases, one was filed on charge of disrupting public life by holding a mass procession and obstructing police from discharging their duties and another under the Explosives Act.
The BNP-Jamaat alliance enforced the half-day shutdown for six hours from 6:00am to protest the death ofShafiqul.
No BNP or Jamaat men were seen picketing during the hartal hours while security was tight with deployment of additionallawenforcers.
Thirty-year-old Shafiqul was hit by a bullet when police, under attack, opened fire on the violent activists of the Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Hatim Khan on Monday.
It all began as law enforcers stopped an opposition procession. In the ensuing fighting, around eighty others, including 19 cops, were injured.
Police claimed that they fired rubber bullets and shotgun shells only to scatter the rioters, not targeting anybody. Rather, gunwielding Jamaat-Shibir activists shot at the law enforcers and exploded cocktails.