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Hizb-ut leader Maola held again

DB says arrest made yesterday, but wife claims he was picked up 5 days ago

Staff Correspondent
Though the wife ofHizb ut-Tahrir leader Prof Syed Golam Maola had claimed that her husband had been picked up by detectives on September 19, DB police said that Maola was arrested yesterday.
Shahida Ahmed, wife of Maola, told newsmen at a press conference yesterday that her husband has been
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made to "disappear" after detectives had picked him up from the gate of Kashimpur jail following his release on bail on September 19 night.
Shahida said Abul Bashar, jailer of Kashimpur jail, handed her husband over to some people who identified themselves as DB police on that night.
Detective Branch (DB) of police, however, told The Daily Star last night that its counter terrorism unit and Gulshan police in a joint drive arrested Maola from near Azad Mosque at Gulshan around 4:00pm yesterday.
The law enforcers made the arrest following information gleaned from Hizb ut-Tahrir activist Maksudul Rahman, who was earlier arrested by Gulshan police from near the US embassy around noon yesterday.
Golam Maola and Maksudul were taken into DB custody for interrogation, said Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Earlier on September 19, the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that had granted a six-month bail to Maola in a case filed for allegedly coordinating the activities of the banned outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir.
During yesterday's press
conference, Shahida said Maola's whereabouts remained unknown for over five days since the detectives picked him up in a microbus.
She said the detectives had been illegally keeping her husband in their custody, violating the constitutional provision for producing a detainee before a magistrate's court within 24 hours of the arrest.
Shahida appealed for intervention by national and international human rights organisations, including the National Human Rights Commission, forherhusband'srelease.
Maola, who allegedly introduced Hizb ut-Tahrir in the country, was arrested from Dhanmondi on July 8, 2010 in connection with the case.
Police filed the case against Maola, a former teacher of Dhaka University, with Uttara Police Station on March 2, 2010.
ARREST OF MAKSUDUL
The DB and Gulshan police, however, had given different accounts of Maksudul's links with the banned outfit.
Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB, said police had information that Maksudul along with other Hizb ut-Tahrir men, carrying placards, had gathered near the US embassy in the capi-
tal's Baridhara to make an attack on it.
Police chased them and arrested Maksudul from Notunbazar area around noon, he said.
However, the Gulshan police were not sure whether Maksudul was an activist of the banned outfit.
Nizamul Haque, additional deputy commissioner of DMA told The Daily Star yesterday that around 60 men brought out a sudden procession near the US embassy around 12:10pm in protest against an anti-Islam film.
He, however, could not confirm whether the protesters belonged to the outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, said Maksudul claimed to be a student of Dhaka College, and police were interrogating him.
Khandker Lutful Kabir, deputy commissioner of police of Gulshan division, said they were verifying whether the protesters were the activists of Hizb-utTahrir.
Police was taking preparations for filing a case in connec-tion with the arrest of Maksudul and Maola, said Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB.