Mahmudur Rahman on 5-day remand

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court today placed Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Amar Desh newspaper, on a five-day remand for grilling in a case filed over plotting to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Golam Nabi passed the order after hearing on Monday.

Assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Hasan Arafat, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Mahmudur Rahman before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.

Later, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Golam Nabi granted remand for five days for Mahmudur Rahman after hearing the petition.

Earlier in the morning, the Amar Desh editor was shown arrested in the case.

A pro-BNP journalist and a former energy adviser, Rahman has been behind bars since April 2013.

On April 18, detectives filed plea to show Mahmudur arrested in the case.

DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman filed the case with Paltan Police Station in August last year.

The case statement says Mamun and some top leaders of the BNP and its allies met in the UK, the US and in the capital`s Paltan and other parts of the country before September 2012 and conspired to abduct and kill the PM`s son.

In March last year, Mamun`s son Rizve Ahmed Caesar was convicted by a US court for bribing an FBI special agent to collect information regarding a Bangladeshi political figure. The US Justice Department did not name the figure, but it is thought that it was Joy.

In a Facebook post on March 9 last year, Joy accused BNP leaders of conspiring to abduct and kill him.

risingbd/Dhaka/Apr 25, 2016/Mamun Khan/Amirul