DHAKA, April 22, 2019 (BSS) – Investigators overnight unearthed “criminal
background” of Feni’s controversial Awami League leader Ruhul Amin as several
agencies launched separate investigations while he is being quizzed under a
five-day police remand over Madrasah student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder.
“We have gathered enough information about his past criminal activities and
controversial political background . . . among other things, he grabbed
private and public property, raising his own so-called cadres,” an official
familiar with the investigation said preferring anonymity.
He added now investigations were underway to take stock of “illegally
earned money” alongside his role in Nusrat murder as “we found his close
links with Yaba (drug) traders as well”.
The official’s comments came as different police organizations including
Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI)
and other intelligence agencies joined hands in investigating the case to
expose the culprits to justice.
Amin was arrested from Dhaka 10 days ago and subsequently was remanded in
police custody under a court order while investigators simultaneously are
interrogating him, expecting to extract a confessional statement about his
role in the burning to death Nusrat, visibly to save Sonagazi Islamia
Madrasah principal Sirajuddowla, who too is behind the bar.
Officials said Amin, Sonagazi Awami League’s president, actually was a
Jatiya Party leader who joined Awami League in 1997 and then went to Saudi
Arabia.
But on his return home in 2009 he kept a close link with local BNP
leadership but managed to join Awami League in 2013 with supports of a
faction of the ruling party.
In 2016, he became the acting upzila unit president of Awami League with
the “blessings” of Nizam Hazari MP and in 2018 became the Sonagazi Awami
League president.
The investigators said Amin sent his wife and children to the United States
and he visits them twice a year.
Amin, they said, has three brothers and all of them were BNP activists, one
being a member of the party’s USA chapter, while the two others were active
in the neighbourhood in Sonagazi.