Dhaka: Golam Faizullah Fahim, one of the three attackers who badly hacked a Madaripur college teacher on Wednesday, has admitted to be a member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir, says the district police chief.
Faizullah told interrogators that he had joined Hizb-ut Tahrir very recently. Some “former students” of Uttara High School and College in Dhaka and two staff of a book shop near the college persuaded him into joining the organisation.
He had been suffering from some sort of “mental depression” when he came in touch of those former students, including one named Jubayer Ahmed, and the book shop staff.
Under their influence, he was totally radicalised, Madaripur Superintendent of Police Sarwar Hossain told The Daily Star yesterday.
Faizullah also said Jubayer and some other militants had a meeting and decided to kill Ripon Chakraborty, a lecturer of mathematics at Government Nazimuddin University College.
As per the decision, Faizullah and two others went to Madaripur to accomplish the mission. They always avoided cellphone conversation and maintained communications through SMS.
Although two of his associates managed to flee after hacking Ripon in the head and shoulders, Faizullah was chased down and caught by locals.
The attack came amid a countrywide police crackdown on militancy.
According to police sources, Faizullah looked “hypnotised” during interrogation. He often said “whatever he had done was for Islam and Allah”, added the sources.
On Saturday, Faizullah went out of his residence around 9:30am saying he was going to a friend’s in Tongi to take preparation for his HSC practical examinations scheduled for the next day. He did not return since then.
Within an hour of his leaving, the father received an SMS purportedly from his son. It read that Faizullah was going aboard and will meet with the family again if he remains alive, according to the investigation office of the general diary the father filed on Saturday night.
Police teams from Madaripur and detective Branch in Dhaka yesterday raided Faizullah’s house at 129 TIC Colony of Faidabad in Dakkhin Khan, Dhaka, and different places in Uttara but could not arrest others named by him.
DB police picked up his mother Kamrunnahar and seized a computer and some documents raiding the residence, said Ripon, brother-in-law of owner of the house, businessman named Nazimuddin.
Faizullah’s father Golam Faruq, who works at a garment factory, was not found in his Faidabad home — a first-floor apartment in a five-storey building.
His cellphone was switched off. According to Ripon, the monthly rent of Faruq’s house is Tk 13,500.He also said he met Faizullah once or twice and the youth had no friends in the neighbourhood. A woman from the next flat, wishing anonymity, said she did not see the boy since Faruq’s family rented the flat one and a half years ago.
Afrin Aktar, one of his teachers at Uttara High School and College, said Faizullah was a regular student in the class and obtained GPA-5 in SSC.He was an HSC examinee from this institution.Faizullah, who was with police during the raids in Dhaka, was taken back to Madaripur last night as he would be produced before a court today.
No case was filed in connection with the attack on the teacher till 8:00pm yesterday, said Additional SP of Madaripur Uttam Kumar Paul. Swapan’s family is busy with his treatment they are taking time to file the case. http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/attacker-admits-hes-hizb-ut-tahrir-man-1240894
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