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prayer rejected STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI Mar 29: A court in Naogaon today rejected the bail petition of Dr. Asadullah Al Ghalib, Professor of Rajshahi University and Ameer of Ahle Hadis Andolon, Bangladesh (AHAB) and three of his associates. Shaikh Abdus Samad As Salafi, Principal, Al Markajul Islam as Salafia Madrasha, Naodapara, Rajshahi, and Naib-e-Ameer of AHAB, Professor Nurul Islam, General Secretary of AHAB and Principal Azizullah, Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Ahle Hadis Jubosangha. They were arrested in several cases including sedition case. It is learnt, the First class Magistrate Shaokatul Alam of Naogaon rejected the bail prayer of those four persons. Earlier, Raninagar thana applied to the court seeking seven-day remand for the four AHAB leaders on charge of Idris Ali Khejur murder case. The court granted four-day remand for them. Dr. Asadullah Al Ghalib and his four accomplishes were shown arrested on the allegation of their involvement in bomb attack on BRAC office of Ganespur branch under Porsha upazila on February 15,2005 and murder of Khejur Ali at Viticamp under Raninanagar thana of Naogaon district on June24, 2004. It is learnt, some unidentified people lobbed three powerful bombs at the BRAC office in which four officials were injured. Police arrested two persons from Porsha-Patnitola road the same night foe their suspected link with the bomb attack. The other case in which Professor Ghalib and his associates have been implicated is Idris Ali Khejur murder case. Khejur (26), a notorious cadre of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was abducted by the cadres of Jagrata Muslim Janata (JMJ) headed by Bangla Bhai from Shimba village under Raninagar thana and was taken to a JMJ camp at Vitigram of the same thana. He was then tortured to death at the camp and his body was dumped under earth inside a bamboo grove. Dr. Ghalib was sent to Naogaon district jail from Gopalganj district jail under tight police security on Friday last. | Top of this page | Back to Index Page |100 injured in Ashuganj mob–police clash UNB, ASHUGANJ Mar 29: Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to quell violence as mobs of local people clashed with them at Ashuganj square today (Tuesday), leaving around 100 wounded and disrupting inter-district traffic. Over 200 vehicles got stranded on both sides in a huge jam as traffic on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway halted for two hours as the rioting took place on the road-intersection, witnesses and officials said. Fifteen cars, including the one of district JCD President Shamim Khan, were also damaged amid the widespread clash that erupted during a protest demonstration against the shifting of a fuel pant. Sources said the clash ensued when locals tried to lay a siege to the highway at 11am to protest a government decision to relocate NGL Fractionation Plant from here to Sylhet and police obstructed. NGL Plant Transfer Control Committee members planned the one-hour Dhaka-Sylhet Highway Siege Programme. "As troubles spread all around, police fired 30 rubber bullets and teargas on the agitating people to get to grips with the situation. The protesters also pelted the police with brickbats," says a firsthand report. Among the injured were convener of the committee Isha Khan, Secretary Shajhahan Alam Saju and journalist Arifur Rahman Dipu. Police brought the situation under control after two hours of raging violence with the help of local BNP activists. UNO M Khalilur Rahman, Assistant Super of Police M Quamruzzaman were present at the spot. Police reinforcements have been deployed in the area. The Committee said that they would announce their next programme through press conference. | Top of this page | Back to Index Page | |