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News No. 89/2012, Monday, September 17, 2012
A SENIOR Judicial
Magitrate in Potia, Chittagong, revoked bail for five activists of the United Peoples’ Democratic
Front (UPDF), as they appeared before the court today in a murder case.
The Magistrate, Akter
Hossain, ordered Bakul Chakma, Bijoy Chakma, Sumon Chakma, Atish Chakma and
Jonathan Chakma to be sent to jail.
The UPDF activists,
falsely charged with murdering Shukro Moni Chakma alias Thudo Kaligor, a JSS (Santu
faction) member, had been on bail since February this year.
Thudo Kaligor, an
expert in repairing guns and pistols, was responsible for procuring arms and
ammunitions for Santu group and is widely believed to have been murdered by
arms peddlers following a quarrel over an issue relating to payment.
When he was killed
by unknown attackers in mysterious circumstances in a jungle in Potia outside
of the CHT on 11 October
last year, all the arrested but Jonathan Chakma worked at factories in
Chittagong EPZ. Jonathan was a student of Syamoli Polytechnic College in Chittagong.
They were arrested
on 16 October 2011 and were granted bail by the Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s court on 16 February this year.
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