5 leaders of Hefajat, Khelafat Majlish remanded
Five top leaders of
Hefajat-e-Islam and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish were placed on different terms
of remand in three cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem
and recent violence in Dhaka.
The five are: Hefajat's
Assistant Secretary General Khurshid Alam Kasemi, also Nayeb-e-Amir of
Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish; Assistant Organising Secretary Ataullah Ameen;
Executive Member of Dhaka City unit Maulana Sanaullah; Vice-president of Dhaka
City unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed; and Khelafat Majlish's Joint Secretary Mufti
Sharafat Hossain.
Of them, Khurshid and Sharafat
were placed on five-day remand in two separate cases filed with Paltan Police
Station over the 2013 mayhem while Ataullah and Sanaullah were remanded for
five days in a case filed with the same police station over the violence on
March 26 this year.
Jubair was shown arrested in two
cases filed over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka and he was
placed on 10-day remand for interrogation.
He was produced before the court
today on completion of five-day remand in another case filed with Paltan Police
Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Baki
Billah passed the remand orders after two sub-inspectors of Detective Branch of
Police and a sub-inspector of Paltan Police Station submitted a 30-day remand
prayer.
In the remand prayer, the IO
said all the Hefajat leaders were directly involved with the 2013 mayhem and
the recent violence in Dhaka. That is why they need to be remanded to gather
information about the incidents and to know names and addresses of other
leaders responsible for committing such offences, the IO added.
On the other hand, defence for
the accused, submitted separate petitions seeking bail along with cancellation
of the remand prayers, saying that they were implicated in the case as a part
of conspiracy to harass them.
Upon hearing both the sides, the
magistrate rejected the defence pleas and placed them on police remand in the
cases.
Kasemi, Sharafat, Ataullah,
Sanaullah and Jubair were arrested from different places on different dates in
the capital recently.