‘Madrasa teachers brought students to Dhaka’

Family members of one madrasa student from Narsingdi district, who was killed in violent clashes between Hifazat-e Islam activists and police in the capital’s Shapla Chattar, have alleged that teachers of a local madrasa brought the students to Dhaka without informing their families.

Narsingdi Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 6 May 2013, 07:28 AM
Updated : 6 May 2013, 04:11 PM

Mahmudul Hasan Zubair, 20, son of one truck driver Abdul Baset of Satirpara Bakultala area of the district town, was killed in the clashes between the radical Islamists and police personnel at Motijheel on Sunday.

Zubair was a ninth grade student of the local Madhabdi Khilgaon Dargabari Madrasa.
But his family members came to know about his going to Dhaka and being killed when two madrasa teachers brought his body at their Bakultala residence on Monday dawn.
Baset claimed that he was not aware of Zubair’s going to Dhaka to taking part in the high-voltage Dhaka Siege programme.
“We came to know that he died of bullet injuries in Dhaka after Zilani Huzur and Abdul Kadir Juzur of the local madrasa brought his body to our home in an ambulance at dawn,” he said.
Zubair’s elder brother ‘Jahangir’, 30, told bdnews24.com that the madrasa teachers took Zubair to Dhaka without informing them.
His namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer) was held at the local Nuria Hafizia Madrasa ground at around 10am. His relatives attended the funeral prayer, but no Hifazat leaders and activists were seen there.
Zubair was buried at Kauriapara graveyard of the district town.
The locals said that the two madrasa teachers left after bringing in Zubair’s body at his residence by ambulance.
His classmates said that they had taken part in the Dhaka- Siege programme as the madrasa teachers asked them to do so.
The bdnews24.com Correspondent went to Madhabdi Khilgaon Dargabari Madrasa to talk to its authorities, but the institution was found under lock and key. The locals said that the madrasa authorities fled the area.
Hifazat leaders and activists took position at the Shapla Chattar in the capital’s commercial hub Motijheel on Sunday afternoon to press home their 13-point demand.
Thousands of radical Hifazat men, allegedly instigated and bolstered by Jamaat and Shibir activists, exploded into an awe-striking force and set fire to hundreds of shops and police outposts in the area as the evening descended.
A few thousand shops, including jewellery, electronics and furniture shops, were looted at Paltan, Baitul Mokkaram and stadium markets.
In a pre-dawn drive, law-enforcers, including police, BGB and RAB personnel, on Monday removed the Hifazat activists from Motijheel area.