A Jamaat-e-Islami activist was shot in the left leg in a gunfight between Jamaat-Shibir men and police yesterday around 4am in Hamidpur, under Jessore Kotwali police station.
The victim Muhaid Hussain, 28, is also former president of the Fatehpur union unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir. He hails from Jhaulia village under Jessore Sadar upazila.
Reshma Sharmin, assistant superintendent of police in Jessore, said a gunfight ensued between Jamaat activists and police when police raided a secret meeting of the activists near a garbage disposal area in Hamidpur. “Muhaid got caught in the line of fire and was shot,” she said, claiming he was an accused in a saboteur case.
Police also arrested two other Jamaat activists named Habibullah and Aminur, and recovered a firearm and a round of bullet, the assistant superintendent said.
On the other hand, Muhaid, who was being treated at Jessore Medical College Hospital, claimed that police had called him out of his residence and shot him in the leg.
