Leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam have demanded the withdrawal of a case filed over the death of their former amir Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi by claiming that he died of natural causes.
They made the claim while reading out a written statement at a press briefing held at Hathazari Madrasa in Chattogram around 11am on Wednesday.
Hefazat’s current amir Allama Junaid Babunagari told at the briefing that a vested quarter is hatching conspiracy over the death of Shah Ahmed Shafi.
On December 17, a case was filed accusing 36 people, including several leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam’s current committee and their Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque over the death Shah Ahmed Shafi.
Md Mainuddin, brother-in-law of Shafi, filed the case with Chattogram Judicial Magistrate Court-3, calling his death “a premeditated murder.”
Maulana Nasir Uddin Munir, Mir Idris, Habib Ullah, Ahsan Ullah, Azizul Haque Islamabadi, Zakaria Noman Foyezi, Nuruzzaman Nomani, Abdul Matin and Mohammad Shahidullah are among the other accused.
Allama Shafi, the rector of Hathazari Madrasa and chief of Hefazat-e-Islam, breathed his last at a hospital in Dhaka on September 18, aged 104.
