A Dhaka court on Saturday 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 IslamiMahanagarMajlish
memberAbul 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 in the morning, the Investigating
Officer (IO) of the case DB Police Inspector Sameer Chandra Sutradhar applied
for a 10-day remand of Selim and remand for different periods 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 meeting 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.
