The two Madrasa students Abu Bakar Mithun, 16, and Sabuj Islam Nahid, 20, arrested in connection with the vandalism of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia admitted that they did it as they inspired hearing anit-sculpture statement at mosque.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Delwar Hossain directed to send them to jail after recording their statement under section 164 on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, in a 3-hour statement, Sabuj Islam alias Nahid said that he liked listening to Waz. I like the waz of Faizul Karim and Mamunul Haque better.
Nahid said they came to Kushtia on December 3 to buy winter clothes with madrasa teacher Yusuf Ali and classmate Abu Bakkar. On their way back to the madrasa, they returned to the madrasa at a crossroads. They saw the sculpture of Bangabandhu there. The next day, on Friday, they heard a statement about the sculpture in the Madrasa Mosque. The Imam was Maulana Ebadur Rahman, Nazim Talima (Second Teacher) of Ibn Masood Madrasa. He described the history of sculpture and announced sculpture as illegal in Islam.
The Mawlana also told that the sculpture have been installed at Panch Rastar More was against Islam.
“On the way out of the prayers, Abu Bakr and I discussed breaking the statue and we went out from the Madrassa with two hammers. We came and broke it with a hammer. ”
Another student Abu Bakkar alias Mithun also confessed the same. They said that in the morning the madrassa teachers (Al-Amin and Yusuf Ali) told them to run away and go home.
Al-Amin and Yusuf Ali, two of the four teachers arrested, made confessional statements in the same court on Saturday. The judge sent them to jail on Saturday evening after their four-day police remand ended.
The sculpture under construction of Bangabandhu was vandalized at the intersection of Panch Rasta in Kushtia city after 2 am on December 5. Kushtia Municipality Secretary Kamal Uddin filed a case with Kushtia Model Police Station. Police arrested two students and two teachers of Hefz Section of Ibn Masood Madrasa on December 6 in this case. On the application of the police on the 8th, the court remanded two madrasa students for 5 days and two madrasa teachers for 4 days.
A police source said they admitted the matter to the police under section 161.
During the interrogation, the two said that they were inspired by the anti-sculpture statements of Maulana Mamunul Haque and Maulana Faizul Haque.
They both deal with their confidence as they choose to embark on their play activities.
In response to this question in the evening, Kushtia Superintendent of Police SM Tanvir Arafath said whether Maulana Mamunul Haque and Maulana Faizul Haque will be made the accused in the case will be decided after further investigation.
