Harun Izhar[1] is a Bangladeshi Deobandi islamic scholar, writer and religious personality.
[3] He is the son of Nizam-e-Islam Party President Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury.
[6] In 2009, Izhar and two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives were arrested in Chittagong while planning an attack on the Indian High Commission and US Embassy.
[7] On July 10, 2013, Harun Izhar was arrested for alleged connection with the grenade attack in Chittagong's Lalkhan Bazar Madrasa.
[8] In 2021, he was arrested by RAB from Chittagong's Lalkhan Bazar Madrasa on the night of April 28 that year on the charge of directly supporting the sabotage that took place in different parts of the country around the issue of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival in Bangladesh to celebrate Bangladeshi independence.