The central leaders of radical Islamist platform Hefazat-e-Islam yesterday demanded the immediate release of Harun Bin Izhar, son of Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury.
In a statement, the Hefazat leaders also warned of tougher movement if Mufti Harun was not freed.
Mufti Harun is in jail in a grenade blast case at his father’s Lalkhan Bazar Madrasa in Chittagong which is believed to be a den of banned Islamist group Huji.
Leaders of the platform, comprising Islamist parties mainly of the BNP-led alliance, alleged that the government had arrested Mufti Harun in a “fake, preplanned and staged” incident and that he was serving jail term “without committing any offence.”
His rearrest from jail gate recently by detectives is a clear violation of human rights, Hefazat claims.
A Chittagong court on June 25 last year indicted Mufti Izhar, Mufti Harun and seven others in a case filed over recovery of picric acid after the grenade blasts on October 7, 2013.
Several locally-made grenades were set off at Jamiatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa, a Qawmi madrasa headed by Mufti Izhar, leaving five students injured critically. Later three of them succumbed to their injuries. Police filed three cases in connection with the blast, killing and recovery of picric acid.
