Former Joint Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Mawlana Mamunul Haque has been released from prison on bail.
He walked out of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail, Gazipur around 11 am on Friday. At that time, a huge number of Hefazat leaders and activists were present at the jail gate.
Subrata Kumar Bala, senior jail super of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail, Gazipur, confirmed his release.
He said Mawlana Mamunul Haque was confined in jail for a long in 37 cases filed with different police stations in the country and he got released today after securing bail in all the lawsuits.
On April 3, 2021, local Awami League leaders and activists gheraoed Mamunul Haque along with a woman whom he claimed his wife at 'Royal Resort' in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.
Being informed, the local leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam, later, snatched him away.
Local sources said the agitated Hefazat men carried out vandalism in the resort during rescuing Mamunul Haque and then staged demonstration by blocking the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
Narayanganj city Hefazat leader Mawlana Ferdausur Rahman said Mawlana Mamunul Haque has two wives. He along with his second wife came to the resort on April 7 but Chhatra League and Juba League leader-activist and locals gheraoed him and humiliated him.
Later, three separate cases were filed against 83 people, including Mamunul Haque, over the alleged attacks on police by Hefazat men when the law enforcers went to the resort to bring the situation under control and vandalism by them there.
On April 18 of the same year, the detectives arrested Mamunul Haque from Jamia Rahmania Madrasa in the capital Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and after that, 34 more cases were lodged against him.
Of these, two were filed with Paltan Police Station in the capital after a clash of Hefazat leaders and activists with police during a program protesting the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in 2021 while another was lodged with Motijheel Police Station following Hefazat men clashed with police during a rally organized at Shapla Chatter in Motijheel in 2013 to press home the organization's 13-point demand. In the latter case, 236 other Hefazat men were named.
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