Probe report submitted in Hefazat's case against Rafiur Rabbi

The Detective Branch of police has submitted an investigation report to a Narayanganj court in a case a Hefazat-e-Islam leader had filed against Rafiur Rabbi, a local cultural personality, accusing him of hurting religious sentiment. Mohammad Hasan, the investigation officer, submitted the report to a district court inspector on Thursday afternoon, who would send it to chief judicial magistrate's court. Hasan, also an inspector of Narayanganj district DB, said: “We prepared the report based on the information given by the people linked to the case and evidence collected from video footages and news reports relating to the case.” He, however, refused to disclose the findings as mentioned in the report for the sake of a fair investigation.

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Mawlana Ferdousur Rahman, coordinator of the radical Islamist group’s Narayanganj unit, filed the case with the court of Narayanganj Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashok Kumar Dutta on April 19. After accepting the case, the court then asked the DB to probe the complaint and set May 7 to hear the case. On April 7, during the 25th anniversary of local cultural organisation “Shrutee,” Rabbi, the father of slain schoolboy Tanvir Mohammad Toki, delivered a speech “offending” religious beliefs of the Muslims, the plaintiff’s lawyer Sultan Ul Arefin said in the case statement. He said: “In his statement Rabbi said freedom fighters would have not taken part in the 1971 Liberation War had they known that the country’s constitution would start with Bismillah.” The plaintiff complained: “The remark was tantamount to offending the Muslims’ religious sentiments.”