The law enforcement agencies are on high alert to avert any kind of destructive activities the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir will presumably carry out following the Appellate Division verdict in Delawar Hossain Sayedee appeals case.
Top officials of police and intelligence agencies have held a number of meetings following reports that the BNP’s key ally might go on the rampage and even carry out suicidal attacks across the country like what they did after the verdict in Sayedee case at the International Crimes Tribunal on February 28 last year.
The Appellate Division is likely to give verdict any day in the appeals case of Sayedee, a Jamaat Executive Council member. Both Sayedee and the government filed appeals challenging the tribunal verdict that gave death sentence to Jamaat leader.
Meanwhile, the tribunal is also set to deliver its verdict any day in the war crimes case against Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami who is facing charges of incitement and involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in Dhaka and Pabna.
An intelligence agency has already submitted a special report to the Home Ministry mentioning about the possible subversive activities, saying that the Jamaat-Shibir had been making an effort to organise their activists and supporters.
The agency has also mentioned the names of around 2,000 activists of Jamaat-Shibir suspected to instigate and carry out subversion across the country.
At a recent meeting, the field-level intelligence officials have been asked to prepare a list of the Jamaat-Shibir men who were freed from jail in the recent times after getting bail.
According to sources, over 1,000 Jamaat-Shibir men came out from jail after taking bail recently. They are now organising the party and trying to bring out other leaders now in jail.
The alleged criminals of Jamaat-Shibir who are at the helm to implement their plan are Saifullah Khaled, Ziaur Rahman, Mahmudul Hassan, Rayhan Ahmed, Al-Amin, Sadeq Al-Hossain, Mohiuddin, Mamunur Rahman, Suzauddin, Saifur Rahman, KM Kamal Uddin, Mamun, Abdullah Al-Azim, Shamsuzzaman, Faruq Hossain, Khalilur Rahman, Asaduzzaman Mamun, Zakirullah Haque, Md Shafiullah, Ismail Nazim, Monirul Islam, Mohabbet Ali, Abul Kashem, Jalal Uddin, Hafizur Rahman, Habibur Rahman, Naimul Islam and Shakhawat Hossain.
Most of these top cadres are expert in carrying out an act of sabotage. They have taken special training about it in the last two years, intelligence sources say.
The law enforcers have also decided to keep eye on madrasas and student messes in the capital, and Satkhira, Joypurhat, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Jessore, Sylhet and Comilla districts.
Moreover, three public universities – Rajshahi, Chittagong and Islamic University in Kushtia – would be given special priority.
According to sources, upon getting special instruction from the Police Headquarters, the superintendents of police in all districts have already asked the OCs of all police stations to conduct special drives if information came from anywhere about suspected subversive activities.
As part of precautionary measures, the intelligence agencies have been asked to strictly monitor Facebook activities of the suspects.
In most cases of the past, it was found that the Jamaat-Shibir men motivate the ordinary Muslims by providing false and fabricated information about its party leaders and activists, especially those facing trials for the 1971 crimes.
After the Sayedee verdict of February last year, the Jamaat-Shibir men spread a rumour that the senior Jamaat leader, who was then in jail, was seen in the moon. The people mainly in the villages were asked to free the leader from jail and street demonstrations sparked massive violence between the Jamaat-Shibir supporters and the law enforcers.
Many ordinary people and a number of police were also killed during the violent attacks by the Jamaat-Shibir.
“We have a general instruction for the law enforcers to remain alert so that the supporters of Jamaat-Shibir cannot carry out destructive activities centring the verdicts of Jamaat leaders,” Additional Secretary (political) of the Home Ministry Kamal Uddin Ahmed said.
