Six remanded over Nayapaltan clash

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has placed six men, who arrested for their alleged involvement in November 14’s clash between BNP men and law enforcers in front of the party’s central office in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan area, on a five-day remand each.

The arrestees include HK Hossain Ali Hridoy, JCD president post aspirant of ward No. 11 in city.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debabrata Biswas passed the order after hearing on Tuesday.

The other people who were remanded are: Shohagh Bhuiyan, general secretary of Shahjanpur  thana; Mohammad Abbas Ali, a member of JCD Central Committee; Md Ashraful Islam Robin, joint general secretary of Dhaka North unit; Jakir Hossain Ujjal, joint secretary of Jagannath University unit and Mahbubul Alam, vice president of Titumir College unit.

Earlier, Kamrul Islam, Inspector of Detective Branch (DB), also Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, produced them before the court and sought a 10-day remand for each.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit officials arrested the six from Sutrapur area in Dhaka after they were identified from media footage and monitoring social media sites.


risingbd/Dhaka/November 20, 2018/Mamun Khan/AKA