Case filed against 180 Jamaat activists

By Mizan RahmanDhakaCase has been filed against 180 women activists of Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami in connection with Sunday’s arrest of 24 activists along with bombs from an Iftar (fast-breaking) party in Koira sub-district of southwestern Khulna district.Alauddin, sub-inspector of Koira police station, filed the case against 28 identified and 100/150 unidentified women Jamaat activists on Sunday night.Shahida Khatun, wife of Koira sub-district chairman, and Khulna south district unit Jamaat chief Tamiz Uddin was among the accused.Tipped off that a group of women leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami were holding a clandestine meeting at a house in Koira, a team of police raided the house and arrested 24 along with three bombs and bomb making materials on Sunday afternoon, said Harendranath Sarkar, officer in-charge of the police station.Later, they were sent to jail after showing them arrested in a case filed under the explosive substances act.Meanwhile, police submitted two separate charge-sheets accusing 40 BNP and Jamaat activists in a case filed over injuring a truck driver and a helper by exploding petrol bomb in Ghoraghat sub-district of Dinajpur district.Sub-inspector Dulal Haque of the Ghoraghat police station, who is also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheets to the court of senior judicial magistrate Mohammad Rezaul Bari.The judge fixed July 6 for hearing on the charge-sheets. According to the case statement, the driver and his helper sustained burn injuries as the BNP and Jamaat activists allegedly hurled a petrol bombs to a rice-laden truck in the night in Ghorarhat sub-district on January 21.Later Asaduzzaman, assistant sub-inspector of Ghorarhat police station filed a case in this connection.