A Dhaka Court on Tuesday granted radical Islamic cleric Mufti Amir Hamja remand for five days in a case lodged against him on charge of circulating extremism.
Inspector Kazi Mizanur Rahman of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced him before the court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
The investigator sought for ten days remand for proper investigation in the case.
However, after hearing, magistrate Atiqul Islam granted remand for five days to interrogate him in police custody.
CTTC arrested Mufti Amir Hamja on charges of spreading extremism under the guise of a religious preacher.
He was arrested from a village in the Islamic University Thana area of Kushtia on Monday, CTTC Joint Commissioner Ilias Sharif said.
He said they arrested a young man named Shakib from the parliament area with a sword on May 5 after finding information that he was planning an attack. A case over the incident was filed with Sher-e-Banglanagar police under the Terrorism Control Act recently.
Shakib later gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka magistrate’s court, and the CTTC unit arrested Mufti Hamza Based on his statement, the CTTC unit official said.
