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Cops act strangely

Campaigner of 'Save Dhanmondi Playground' sued for vandalism, arson, carrying explosives, firearms

Staff Correspondent
Within four hours of his release from detention on Saturday, a green activist was again arrested for Friday night's vandalism at the Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club.
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, 36, was named an accused in a case for vandalism, arson and carrying explosives and firearms.
However, he was granted bail when Dhanmondi police presented him before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court yesterday with a seven-day remand prayer.
Unidentified miscreants on Friday night defaced the mural of Sheikh Jamal and vandalised the guardroom of Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at the capital's Dhanmondi-8 playground.
Hsing the name of environmentalists, they also hung banners hail-ing the greens for freeing Dhanmondi playground from illegal occupation and defaming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's family. The campaigners say it was meant to sabotage the movement.
On Saturday morning, Ishtiaque, also a telecommunication engineer, was taken to the Dhanmondi Police Station after he was assaulted by some people from the club.
Ishtiaque had tried to pull down some of those banners and festoons.
"The o ffi ce r-i n - ch a rge of Dhanmondi Police Station told me that they could let me go if I could get permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner," he told The Daily Star yesterday.
"Later around 4:00pm they [police] let me go after I gave an undertaking," he said. However, around 7:45pm, police called him over to the police station. He complied and got arrested.
"We have made a huge mistake letting you go, because the highest levels in the government have expressed their anger over your release. They are convinced that you defaced Sheikh Jamal's mural and put up anti-government banners," Ishtiaque quoted the duty officer as saying to him.
Iqbal Habib, joint secretary of Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), at a press conference yester-day morning, said Deputy Commissioner Maruf Hasan of Ramna zone police told him that Ishtiaque could not be released because of an instruction by the highest level of the government.
However, Maruf denied saying any such thing to Habib. "We arrested Ishtiaque because the club authorities complained about his involvement in Friday's incident."
Asked why Ishtiaque was detained, released and arrested again within hours, the officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station told The Daily Star, "We arrested him based on the case relating to Friday's incident.
"Initially we were not certain about his involvement and brought him in for primary interrogation."
But after investigation from Saturday afternoon to 8:00pm, the police became convinced about Ishtiaque's involvement in the incident, he added. He too denied receiving any order from government high-ups.
At the press conference, Habib also said, "Using the name of environmentalists, a vested group hung banners and festoons around the Dhanmondi playground, belittling Bangabandhu's family and the government."
The meet was arranged by activists of "Save the Dhanmondi Playground" movement at Dhanmondi's Chhayanaut Bhaban.
He said all the banners and festoons used by Bapa and the other organisations that are involved in
the movement are made of cloth, not PVC material, with which Friday's banners were made.
"We did not carry out any of the activities of this movement without the media's presence," Iqbal said.
Habib pointed out that the actual campaigners would never make the mistake of using the word "Engr" before architect Mobass her Hossain's name.
President of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) Mobassher Hossain, architect Salma A Shafi, Kamrunnahar Dana, general secretary of Bangladesh Women's Sports Association and former cricketer Gazi Ashraf Hossain, as well as other eminent personalities and human rights activists were present at the conference.
The campaigners demanded punishment to conspirators who are trying to insult the government and Bangabandhu's family and sabotage the movement.
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, a limited company, has been illegally occupying the playground for the last few years.
The High Court in 2011 ordered the city corporation, police and public works ministry to open the field to the public and remove all illegal structures from there.
On April 18 this year, the club sued Mobassher Hossain, Iqbal Habib, Salma A Shafi and Quamrunnahar Dana for entering the playground.
However, after at least two years of restriction, on April 24, the Dhaka South City Corporation opened the playground to the public.