'71 Killing in Bagerhat
Jamaat leader sued again
A case was filed with a Bagerhat court yesterday against nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf and 29 others on charge of killing a freedom fighter during Liberation War in 1971.
The accused include former lawmaker and Morelganj upazila BNP president Dr Miah Abbas Uddin.
Martyred freedom fighter Zainal Fakir's wife Achhia Khatun of Sonatola village under Sharankhola upazila filed the case with Bagerhat additional chief judicial magistrate court yesterday noon.
Achhia in her complaint said, a gang, led by Yusuf, picked up freedom fighter Zainul from Tafalbari bazaar on June 9 in 1971. The accused hacked Zainul, shot him dead and threw his body into the nearby canal, she alleged.
The court ordered the OC of Sharankhola police station to record the allegation.
Earlier on December 4 last year, Yusuf and 35 others were sued on charges of killing freedom fighters, setting fire to a house and looting valuables from it during Liberation War in 1971.
Khadija Begum of Dakkhin Rajoir village under Sharonkhola upazila of Bagerhat filed the case with the additional chief judicial magistrate's court.
The court ordered the officer-in-charge of Sharonkhola police station to record the case as an ejahar.
The plaintiff in her statement said, the accused led by Jamaat leader AKM Yusuf and Miah Abbas Uddin set up a camp on the first floor of the building that houses police station at Rayenda Bazar of the upazila in 1971 and killed a number of freedom fighters at the camp.
On June 7, 1971, a group of freedom fighters, including her husband Ismail Hossain Hawlader and Asmat Munshi of Khuriakhali village, attacked the camp, she said.
Both sides traded bullets and at one stage the accused caught the freedom fighters, including Ismail and Asmat Munshi, and beat them dead, she added.
The plaintiff alleged that the accused on June 8, 1971 attacked her house, looted rice, cash, gold ornaments and other valuables and set the house afire.
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