Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmul Hossen Chowdhury passed the order on Sunday.
“The court sent them to the jail rejecting their bail prayers.
Earlier in the day, they were produced before the court with a remand
plea,” Assistant Commissioner (AC) (Prosecution) Kazi Shahabuddin told
the Dhaka Tribune.
Members of Detective Branch and Special Task Group (STG) officials of
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive arrested the suspected
members of the blacklisted group from a flat in Chittagong city’s
Nayabazar area on Friday night while they were holding a clandestine
meeting.
Police claimed that the members of the outfit had been working for
establishing an Islamic state in Bangladesh like the other militant
groups. However, police are yet to confirm which militant outfit “Islami
Samaj” is exactly linked with.
According to the Globalsecurity.org, Islami Samaj is a breakaway
faction of Jamaat-e-Islami. The organisation was established in May 6,
1993 by Jamaat’s founding ameer Mufti Abdul Jabbar. In 1983, he formed a
dissident group of Jamaat following his disagreement with
Jamaat leader Ghulam Azam.
The present ameer of the organisation is Syed Humayun Kabir, a former
member of Islami Chhatra Shibir. The organisation’s objective is to
establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh. It also opposes democracy as it
believes that it is a man-made system and contradictory to Islam.
Many Islamist parties and platforms like Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
and Islami Oikyo Jote, and banned militant groups want to establish
Shariah Law in the country. Of the outlawed groups, Jama’atul Mujahideen
Bangladesh, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Ansarullah Bangla Team have been found
involved in the recent targeted killings in the name of establishing
Islam with the support of regional and Middle East-based Islamist
outfits.
