Bangla Bhai driver sent to jail

The driver of former JMB chief Bangla Bhai has been arrested and sent to jail.

Baghmara police chief Harunur Rashid said that Shaihudul was arrested on Saturday in relation to a case where he and a number of other cadres of Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai, chief of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, is alleged to have inflicted violence on Jhikra upazila parishad member Ramzan Alim and demanded Tk 50,000.

Ramzan Ali had filed the case in 2006 but as Shahidul had not appeared, the court had issued a warrant for his arrest.

Following his arrest, Shahidul was sent to jail by order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Rajshahi.

Shahidul Islam has a number of other cases against him – for which he is currently on bail.