Supporters of murdered Narayanganj City Councillor Nazrul Islam have set fire to the offices of Nur Hossain and Haji Md Yasin, the prime accused in the case over his abduction and killing.
Witnesses say hundreds of men went on the rampage after the councillor’s second Namaz-e-Janaza was held near Sanarpar bus stand at Siddhirganj on Thursday noon.
A lane of the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway was blocked to accommodate the thousands who attended the slain councillor’s funeral prayers.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Shahidul Islam of Narayanganj Police told bdnews24.com the agitators set fire to Nur Hossain’s office at Shimrail intersection.
The Ward-4 Councillor’s office inside a truck terminal at Shimrail was completely gutted after it was torched, said ADC Shahidul.
The mob also set fire to a stage set up for Jatra (folk theatre).
Witnesses say police, RAB and BGB were all present during the attack but did not stop the attackers from setting fire to the office.
“We had to handle it carefully. We talked to them and calmed them down,” said ADC Shahidul.
Narayanganj Fire Service Deputy Assistant Director reached the burning office to put out the fire, but it was gutted by then.
In the evening, Siddhirganj Awami League General Secretary Haji Md Yasin’s office was vandalised and burned.
Meanwhile, Nazrul was buried at his family graveyard in Sanarparh’s Mizmizi area after the second Namaz-e-Janaza.
He was among the seven whose bodies were recovered from the river Shitalakhya in the past 48 hours.
The men were all abducted from the city’s Adalatparha on Sunday.
Earlier, Nazrul’s wife Selina Islam Beauty filed an abduction case naming Siddhirganj Awami League Vice-President Nur Hossain and General Secretary Haji Md Yasin.
Nur Hossain has told bdnews24.com he is not involved with the abduction and murder.
Since the abduction, the two politicians have not appeared in public.
Four of Nazrul’s aides along with senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his driver Md Ibrahim, are also among the dead, their decomposed bodies recovered by police from the river.
The protests that began at Narayanganj after the abductions on Sunday escalated after Nazrul’s body was found in the river at Bandar Upazila.
His supporters torched a filling station at Siddhirganj’s Mouchak and blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning.
Police, however, kept it closed until the councillor’s second janaza was held at Sanarpar.
The crimes have shaken the entire nation. The issue of abduction and murder made its way into the May Day speeches of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Hasina blamed the BNP for these murders, while Khaleda Zia blamed the ruling Awami League.
Nazrul Islam was the former general secretary of Narayanganj district unit of ruling Awami League’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and former central committee member of the Juba League.
There are at least 15 cases in various police stations against Nazrul, including a double murder, and countless general diaries.
He was given the death penalty for the murder of a lawyer in Dhaka but was acquitted by the High Court.
Source: Bd news24
Couple of days ago Hasina ordered the police to “arrest the killers” and now she says, “BNP are the killers” – great. Looks like with her bionic power she has already identified her political opponents as the mureders before a single step to probe these crimes could even start, .
Regardless, from the actions of the angry people of Narayanganj, it is clear that they don’t quite buy what the dear leader Hasina – many suspect her as the chief accomplish of most political murders in Bangladesh – says and who she points her finger at.
Seeing the way general public are reacting to these political murders that hardly ever get properly investigated and the crminals rarely punished they saying among themselves enough is enough, time has comne to prosecute the prosectors – the call for “bicharpoti tomar bichar korb-e jara, aj jegeche shei jonota” resonates all around and the time is not far when the throne of the ‘jalim’ will be shaken and destryed once for all.,
With all the destructive deeds of her administration, it seems like that her fall is imminent. It would be interesting to watch the fall of the evil empire. Meanwhile, the people of Bangladesh must be on their guards to let the wheel of history roll on.