‘Kalyanpur militant’ Sabbirul not actual Sabbirul!
One of the nine ‘Kalyanpur militants’ killed in police gunshots who was initially claimed by police to be Chittagong Awami League leader’s son Sabbirul is not Sabbirul, according to the family.
Prothom Alo’s Chittagong correspondent has reported that Sabbirul’s father Azizul Haque Chowdhury filed a General Diary (GD) with Baklia police station at 11:00pm on Friday seeking police help to find his missing son as the militant which was said to be Sabbirul is not their Sabbirul.
Sabbirul Haque, an undergraduate student of International Islamic University, Chittagong, left his home on the afternoon of 21 February this year and has been missing since then, Baklia police station officer-in-charge Abul Mansur told the Prothom Alo.
Nine people were killed in in “an exchange of gunfire during a police raid” in Kalyanpur on 26 July.
Police are claiming that all of them are members of the banned local militant outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen, Bangladesh, notoriously known as JMB, although the killed people were seen carrying the flag of the Middle East-based international terrorist organisation Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant aka ISIL aka ISIS aka IS in the photographs released by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) of the ‘militants’ after the raid.
Shortly after the raid, the police named three of the ‘militants’ and Sabbirul was one of them although he was not on the list of eight ‘militants’ the identities of whom the DMP released the next day.
Following media reports in this regard, one of Sabbirul’s cousins Wahidul Haque Chowdhury on Thursday came to Dhaka to inspect the body, but he claimed that the body is not of Sabbirul.
Sabbirul’s father then filed the GD.
The Baklia police station OC said the police are trying to track down Sabbirul’s whereabouts as his father filed the GD.
Sabbirul’s father Azizul Haque Chowdhury told the Prothom Alo, “First, we felt reluctant to inform the police that Sabbirul was missing. We filed the GD as it is now an open secretl.”
“I urge the people to hand over my son to law enforcers or can contact me if they come across Sabbirul,” he added.
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