Police sought for 24 days’ remand of Hefazat-e-Islam’s former Joint Secretary Mamunul Haque in three separate cases.
Sonargaon police and Narayanganj Detective Branch (DB) of police sought the remand.
Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Jayedul Alam confirmed it. Senior Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Humayun Kabir's court however fixed May 9 for the remand hearings.
According to SP Jayedul, 24 days’ custody of Mamunul had been sought in three separate cases filed with Sonargaon police station.
A request for a 10-day remand had been made in the rape case file by Mamunul’s so-called second wife and a seven-day remand in the case filed over the vandalism of Sonargaon Upazila Awami League office.
The DB also sought seven days’ custody in the case filed over the violence perpetrated in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila.
Mamunul Haque was arrested from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on April 18.
He has been under the spotlight since April 3 when he had been surrounded by locals and ruling party supporters with a woman, whom he had identified as his second wife, at Royal Resort in Sonargaon.
Local administration officials and police had gone to the resort upon hearing about the incident and sat with Mamunul to learn about the incident.
Later, a group of Hefazat supporters ran riot in the area, over which a total of seven cases had been filed. Around 50 Hefazat leaders and activists have been arrested in those seven cases so far.
