The court has granted bail to Mamunul Haque, Central Joint Secretary General of the defunct Committee for the Protection of Islam in three cases of Paltan and Motijheel police stations in the capital.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Hakim of Dhaka. Mamunul Haque’s lawyer Abdus Salam Himel said that Mahbubul Haque ordered bail after the hearing on Wednesday.
He said that Mamunul got bail in one case of Motijheel police station in 2013 and two cases of Paltan police station in 2021.
“There are a total of 41 cases against him in Dhaka and outside Dhaka. He cannot be released from prison now as he has not been granted bail in all the cases.”
Mamunul was in the news for the violence of the Qaumi madrasa-centric groups opposing the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh on the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence in 2021.
At that time there were massive clashes between the police and security workers in Baitul Mokarram in Dhaka, Hathazari in Chittagong, Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj. At least 17 people lost their lives in these incidents.
Mamunul’s influence in the organization was extensive even though there was a joint Secretary General of Hefazat. His role in setting the organization’s policy was also evident. After one incident after another, he fell into an embarrassing situation at the Royal Resort of Sonargaon in Narayanganj on April 3 that year.
After claiming his female companion as his wife, the followers attacked and kidnapped Mamunul. Later, Hefazat activists vandalized the houses of Awami League leaders and activists in Sonargaon and the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Then the police started the operation. On May 5, 2013, the Shapla Chattar cases were revived. Mamunul was arrested on April 18 from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
Apart from this, the police have registered several cases of violence. The resort companion also filed a rape case against him. Along with that, the cases of violence in Shapla Chattar also came to the fore.
Political leaders were released from custody in June of that year. Along with Mamunul, his brother Mahfuzul Haque lost his post.
Their father Shaikhul Hadis Allama Azizul Haque formed a four-party alliance in 1999 with BNP. At that time, he led the alliance of Qaumi madrasah-centric parties, Islami Oykajot. But he was the first to leave the four-party alliance.
Mamunul was remanded and interrogated several times after his arrest. Police said at the time that Mamunul Haque had ‘instigated’ the students of the Qaumi Madrasa into the field, with the aim of ‘overthrowing the government and seizing state power’.
Mamunul was ‘close’ to the militants involved in the grenade attack on the Awami League rally in 2004 and was also in Pakistan for about a month and a half with one of them, according to the police at that time.
