RU pro-Jamaat teacher sent to jail

A pro-Jamaat-e-Islami teacher of Rajshahi University was sent to jail today for his alleged involvement in an attack on police during BNP-led 20-party alliance’s anti-government agitation this year.

Amirul Islam, an associate professor of Islamic History and Culture department of the RU, was detained around 8:30pm yesterday from his residence in the city’s Binodpur area, our Rajshahi University correspondent reports.

A Rajshahi court sent Amirul to jail this morning after police produced him before the court showing him arrested in a case, said Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station.

The case was filed on March 17 for attacking police during agitation enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.  

OC Humayun claimed that the pro-Jamaat teacher was one of the masterminds who led several attacks on police in Rajshahi since 2013.