Jamaat leader dies in Rajshahi ‘encounter’

A Jamaat-e-Islami leader has died in a ‘shootout’ between agitators and police in Rajshahi.

Rajshahi Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 Jan 2015, 08:46 AM
Updated : 28 Jan 2015, 10:08 AM

The dead, identified as Nurul Islam Shaheen, was the party’s secretary of the town’s Ward Number 30.

Police said he was accused in 11 cases of violence that included murdering policeman.

Metropolitan Police Commisioner Md Shamsuddin said Shaheen died in the ‘shootout’ that took place at Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Mor late on Tuesday night.

Two police constables were also injured during the ‘encounter’, he said.
The police detained Shaheen, accused in 11 cases including the murder of constable Siddhartho Sarkar, around 8pm on Tuesday night, said Commissioner Shamsuddin on Wednesday.

“His (Shaheen) associates lobbed bombs and started shooting at the police car when it reached Binodpur’s Nalkhola Ashrafer Mor around 2am.”

“Police fired back in response. Nurul Islam (Shaheen) was shot while attempting to flee from the police vehicle.”

Later he was declared dead by the doctors at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital when he was taken there, said the police commissioner.

Five rounds of ammunition and 10 hand-made bombs were recovered from the spot, he said.

The injured policemen, Mozahar Hossain and Golam Mostafa, were being treated at the Police Lines Hospital, said the commissioner.

Fazlul Haque, the younger brother of the dead, said the detective police took Shaheen away from his Padma Offset Printing Press in Maloparha area around 8pm.

“We contacted the police headquarters in the night after an employee of the press informed us. They said he would be transferred to court on Wednesday morning.

“But in the morning we were informed from the hospital that Shaheen’s body was in the morgue.”