HUSAINI DALAN EXPLOSION : Police narrow down investigation to Jamaat’s activities

The police are narrowing down the investigation into the Husaini Dalan explosion case to the activities of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir, as they claim to have not found any militant link or plot from other quarters.
The four detainees who were interrogated in custody of Detective Branch of police on the explosion were released on Wednesday after police found no involvement on their part.
Three improvised bombs exploded at a gathering of Shia Muslims at Hussaini Dalan compound in Dhaka at about 1:45am on Saturday, when Shia Muslims were about to bring out their Tajia procession marking holy Ashura.
The explosions left a teenage boy dead and scores injured, some of them badly.
The case is being investigated by the Detective Branch [south] of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
DB officials said that since the Hossaini Dalan explosion early Saturday, they had investigated the case from different aspects — local militant links, Jamaat’s involvement and plots from other quarters, but Jamaat’s activities were now their prime focus.
‘We have narrowed our investigation down to the activities of Jamaat and Shibir,’ said DB deputy commissioner [south] Mashrukur Rahman Khaled.
Police earlier said the bombs found in Kamrangichar through information provided by the arrested in assistant sub-inspector Ibrahim murder, were similar to those used at the Hossaini Dalan explosion.
Mashrukur said on Wednesday they carried out different analyses on undetonated bombs found at Hossaini Dalan and concluded that those were similar with the bombs found in Kamrangichar.
‘As Shibir activists are the key accused in ASI Ibrahim murder, we are focusing to their activities,’ he said.
Mashrukur said those arrested in relation to the ASI murder were being interrogated now.
He, however, said that no one directly related to the Hossaini Dalan incident has been identified as yet.

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