A Chittagong court has issued an arrest warrant against Nayeb-e-Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam and Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury in two more cases filed over grenade blasts at his Lalkhan Bazar Madrasa where three students were killed in October, 2013.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nowrin Akhter Kakon passed the order on Sunday in two cases regarding killing and recovery of picric acid.
Advocate Abdus Sattar, counsel for Mufti Izhar, said the accused was on bail from High Court till March 27 while the defense lawyer pleaded for an extended bail period before the court.
However, the accused did not appear before the court due to sickness, he said.
“Then the court rejected the plea and issued arrest warrants,” said Abdus Sattar.
Earlier, another Chittagong court on March 27 issued an arrest warrant against Mufti Izhar, also chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote, in the blast case filed over the same incident.
Several locally-made grenades were set off at Jamiatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa, a Qawmi madrasa headed by Mufti Izhar, on October 7 last year leaving five students injured critically. Later three of them succumbed to their injuries.
On October 10, the police filed three cases in connection with the blast, killing and recovery of picric acid.
