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Bangladesh
Hannan, 12 other Huji men charged
2013-11-28
[Bangla Daily Star] Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against 13 members of banned Death Eater outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI)
Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan in two cases filed over the kabooms on a CPB rally in 2001.

Of the 13 accused, HuJI chief Mufti Hannan, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh, Arif Hassan Sumon, Maulana Sabbir Ahmed, Maulana Shawkat Osman and Md Moshiur Rahman are currently behind bars while Mufti Abdul Hai, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Md Nur Islam, Mohibul Mustakin, Anisur Rahman and Rafiqul Alam Miraj are in Pakistain have been absconding ever since the incident.

Earlier in his confessional statement, Mainuddin had admitted his involvement in carrying out the attack, and said Mufti Hannan and several others were involved in this as well.

Of the cases, one was filed for killing five people and injuring 50 others while another was filed under the Explosive Substances Act following the kaboom on a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) at the capital's Paltan Maidan on January 21, 2001.

CID Inspector Mrinal Kanti Saha, also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the cases, submitted two charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka with a list of 107 prosecution witnesses.

During the investigation, 26 people including Mufti Hannan were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
for their alleged involvement with the kaboom.

The names of 20 people have been dropped from the charge sheets as no evidence of their involvement could be found.

According to the charge sheets, the accused carried out the blasts on the pretext that the CPB members were "atheists".

Asked about the charge sheets, the then CPB president Monzurul Ahsan Khan, also the complainant of the cases, told The Daily Star that he was satisfied with charge sheets despite the fact that it took 12 years for the police to do that.

Soon after the blasts, police arrested 12 people but the CID, in its final investigation report submitted on December 17, 2003, cleared the arrestees of the charges as no "correct, impartial and reliable" evidence was found against them.

Later the home ministry ordered a reinvestigation into the incident following an application submitted by the CID in 2005.

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Bangladesh
'Outlaw' killed in 'shootout'
2012-11-04
[Bangla Daily Star] The ringleader of the outlawed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP)
We haven't had one of those for a while. I thought they'd finally gone extinct, but it looks like they are merely endangered.
was killed in a "shootout" between his accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion personnel in Dumuria upazila of Khulna early yesterday.
Hurrah! With the Rab on the case, we know the crossfire will be done right.
Deceased Shailendra Nath Biswas Shailan, 48,
A four-namer, though not one of them is Mohammed. Must've been rich.
was a listed criminal operating in the southwestern region of the country, said police. He had also been sentenced to life term imprisonment in a murder case.
Clearly an ambitious criminal type, though not up to the usual wanted on twelve planets standard. But read on, dear Reader, and perhaps more will be revealed.
On information that some outlaws were holding a clandestine meeting at Shalua Bazar in the upazila,
"Hist! Mahmoud the Weasel the 27th here! There's to be a secret meeting in the upazila!"
a Rab team raided the area around 3:30am, said Lt Commander Noor-e-Alam, operation officer of Rab-6, Khulna.

As soon as the team reached the spot,
...marked with an X, of course...
the outlaws opened fire on the Rab men, forcing them to fire back.
They would have preferred to negotiate a mutually agreeable outcome, but what can one do?
Well, they always do so well in that sort of thing, don't they?
That triggered a "shootout", the Rab official said -- a common version provided by the law enforcers after every such shootout when deaths take place.
Deaths do keep occurring around the Rab. It's because those miscreants will insist on opening fire the moment their Spidey Senses tingle.
After the criminals managed to flee the scene.
... as though they had never been...
the Rab team found a man lying on the ground with bullet injuries, he said.
One behind each ear. The Rab were both shocked and appalled, poor dears.
The newest corporal had the vapours and had to be led away until he calmed down.
Local people identified the man as Shailen.

He was then taken to Dumuria Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead.
He's dead, Jim!
The body was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.

The Rab personnel recovered a 9mm pistol, a revolver and six rounds of bullets from the spot.
They will be cleaned until the sergeant can see his face in them by the newest corporal, then returned to their velvet-lined cases in the evidence room for next time.
Rab claims that a patrol car of Rab was also damaged during the "shootout".
Oh dear. Someone will have to do something about that. It is unlikely to be pleasant.
Shailen, son of Kalipodo Biswas of Sholua village in the upazila, was accused in 28 cases, including for extortion and murder filed with Dumuria Police Station, said its Officer-in-Charge Md Moshiur Rahman.
Ah hah! There's our wanted on twelve planets, and a Mohammed. It pays to continue reading.
The victim was the second-in-command of the NBCP until 2004. But after the killing of its ringleader Monoranjan Goshai Mrinal by his rivals at Bangaon in India's West Bengal, Shailen was made chief of the outlawed party, the OC added.

A few years back, Shailen fled to 24-Parganas in India where he was cooled for a few years
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
six months ago for his involvement in criminal activities. A local court incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
him for two months, said Moshiur.
"Sixty days or sixty dollars!"
"Arrrr! I can do sixty days standin' on me head!"

After he returned from India last month, Shailen started to reorganise his party, the police official said, adding that Shailen was reportedly killed by his rivals in Paschimbanga on January 30 this year. But the report could not be independently confirmed at the time.
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