A Dhaka court today granted a five-day remand to
Jamaat-e-Islami's Dhaka Metropolitan North Ameer Muhammad Selim Uddin, who
was arrested from a secret meeting along seven others in Bashundhara
Residential area of the capital on Friday evening.
The other seven accused in the case-- Jamaat-e Islami Mahanagar Majlish
member Abul Bashar, former General Secretary of Cumilla District Chhatra
Shibir Mohammad Yusuf and Jamaat-e-Islami activists Anwarul Haque, Shabbir
Ahmed, Engineer Mohammad Sirajul Islam and Abdul Hakim Sarkar-- were granted
two-day remand each.
As they were produced before the court this morning, the Investigating
Officer (IO) of the case DB Police Inspector Sameer Chandra Sutradhar applied
for a 10-day remand of Selim and different period remands for the rest.
However, the lawyers of the accused pleaded the court to cancel the remand
and grant them bail.
After hearing both the parties, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh
Sadi scrapped bail plea and granted them remand for different terms.
Earlier 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, sabotaging government buildings and vehicles and creating menace.
A case was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at Bhatara Police Station in
the capital on Friday night.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha