Juba League leader arrested

Gournadi police on Sunday arrested a Juba League leader as suspected killing-squad member of murdering a primary school teacher and former JCD leader Farid Zamaddar.

Gournadi police station officer-in-charge ( inspection) inspector Mizanur Rahman and  investigation officer of the case said that Mukul Jamaddar, 35, was arrested from Diashur in Gournadi municipal town in the morning after tracking the mobile–phone calls of the suspected.

Mukul is a member of Gournadi upazila Juba League convening committee and cousin of Nayon Sharif, 29, upazila secretary and Kajal Howladar, 28, vice president Gournadi Government College units of BCL, two prime-accused in the Farid-murder case.

Mukul has been sent to Barisal district police office Sunday noon.

The officer-in-charge of the police station, inspector Nurul Islam, himself took him to the district police office.

The police superintendent of Barisal, Dev Das Bhattacharyya, said that Mukul was shown arrested after he confessed

in primary interrogation that he was in the killing squad.

Mukul would be further interrogated by an interrogation board of different branches of police and would be produced before the court on today, the SP said.

Earlier Gournadi police recorded the statement Shefali an eye-witness of the incident and interrogated Saddam Sardar and Zia Saradar, two BCL activists, in this connection, said the OC of Gournadi police station.

Shah Farid Zamaddar, 29, former president Chandshi union and vice president Gournadi Government College JCD units  and teacher of Pinglakathi Government Primary School under Chandshi union  in Gournadi upazila was chopped to death in open daylight Thursday morning when they were on their way to school.

Shah Jalal Zamaddar, a primary school teacher and brother of the victim, filed a murder case on Thursday night with Gournadi police station.

He alleged that his brother Shah Farid Zamaddar was murdered in a sequel to an altercation he had last month with local BCL cadres.

BCL cadres led by Nayon and Kajal, swooped on Farid when he was on his way to school and chopped him leaving him critically injured at about 9.40 AM Thursday and the attending physician at the upazila health complex declared Farid dead when he was taken there, he said.

In protest against the killing of primary school teacher and former JCD leader, half-day Hartal was observed at Gournadi municipal town on Friday and primary school teachers started week-long protest programme wearing black badges and abstaining from work.

Advocate Talukdar Md Yunus, local AL lawmaker while talking to journalists over cell phone condemned the killing.

He said that he asked the police for holding free and fair investigation and arrest of the killers.

He said that the killing occurred due to personal rivalry and that it had nothing to do with

politics.

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