Dhaka court places 8 Jammat leaders and activists on remand

Remand

Jehangir Hussain

A Dhaka court on Saturday placed eight leaders and activists  of  Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami including  its  North City Ameer Muhammad Selim Uddin   on several days remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

 Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh Sadi  placed  Muhammad Selim on a five-day remand and  seven other Jamaat activists on  two day-remand,said General Reserve Officer Rounaf Kumar Bakhta.

The other seven Jamaat men are  Abul Bashar,  Mohammad Yusuf ,  Anwarul Haque, Shibbir  Ahmed, Engineer Mohammad Sirajul Islam, Engineer Mahbub Ali  and  Abdul Hakim Sarkar .

DB Police Inspector Sameer Chandra Sutradhar . also Investigation Officer(IO) of the case   produced them before the court with a prayer  to grant  remand.

The lawyers of the accused pleaded in the court to reject the remand plea and grant them bail.

After hearing both parties, the  court rejected the  bail plea and granted them remand for different terms.

On Friday, Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists gathered in a “secret meeting” inside a building in block- D, road no- 29 in the city's Bashundhara Residential Area.

According to the case, they gathered at the confidential meet with the aim to spread terror activities among the public, overthrowing the government by conspiracy, sabotage government buildings and vehicles and create terror. 

A case was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at Bhatara police station in the capital on Friday night.

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