New case filed over violence in Ctg for Chinmoy’s jail order

Another case has been filed in connection with the violence in Chattogram following the jail order of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a spokesperson of the Sammilita Sanatan Jagaran Jote, or United Hindu Awakening Alliance.

A person named Mohammad Ullah initiated the case with the port city’s Kotwali Police Station on Tuesday, said OC Abdul Karim.

A total of six cases have been filed over the violence and the killing of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram. Three of them were filed by police.

As many as 29 people, including two former ward councilors, have been made accused in the case, along with 40 to 50 unidentified people.

Mohammad Ullah started the complaint introducing himself as a businessman.

He cited the accused people as members of the Chhatra League, Jubo League, Swechchha Sebak League, Awami League, and ISKCON.

The first accused in the case is Jahar Lal Hazari, a former Councilor of Andarikalla ward No. 32 and a leader of the city’s Awami League unit.

The next accused is Shaibal Das Sumon, Councilor of Jamalkhan ward No. 21.

However, the two former Councilors have gone into hiding since the fall of the government on Aug 5.

Advocate Jinat Sohana Chowdhury was named as accused number 3 in the case.

In the complaint, Mohammad Ullah noted that he went to a lawyer’s chamber at the Chattogram Court Building to seek legal assistance in business-related matters on Nov 26.

On the way back from there, he took the Rangam Convention Hall road out of fear after seeing the 29 accused people named in the case along with 40 to 50 other unidentified Chhatra League, Jubo League, Swechchha Sebak League, Awami League and ISKCON supporters.

“There, the accused beat him on suspension for being a Shibir activist after spotting a prayer cap on his head and snatched TK 6,000,” he said.

On Nov 26, members of the Sanatani or Hindu community demonstrated surrounding the prison van on the Chattogram court premises as Chinmoy Krishna was not granted bail and sent to jail in a sedition case.

Police removed the protesters by throwing sound grenades and took him to prison following protests on the court premises from 12:15pm to 3:45pm.

During the protest, several motorcycles and vehicles on court road were damaged, as glass shards littered the second floor of the Court Mosque Complex, where lawyers’ chambers are located.

The demonstration sparked clashes between protestors and lawyers and staff. Saiful was killed during the skirmishes on the Rangam Convention Hall road. - Special Correspondent