Police seek 80 days' remand!
Police yesterday showed BNP chairperson's Adviser Shawkat Mahmud arrested in eight more cases and sought an eighty-day remand for him.
The Dhaka court fixed today for hearing the prayers, asking the jail authorities to produce Shawkat, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, before it.
The cases were filed for assaulting policemen, preventing them from discharging their duties, damaging and torching vehicles, and throwing crude and petrol bombs at passengers' buses in the city's Paltan and Motijheel areas in January and February this year during the BNP-led 20-party alliance blockade programme.
The cases were lodged with Paltan and Motijheel police stations.
On Saturday, Shawkat was sent to jail on completion of his three-day remand in a case filed for the death of a private car driver in an arson attack in January.
On August 18, law enforcers detained him from the city's Panthapath area when he went to a convention centre to attend a press briefing of Adarsha Dhaka Andolan, a pro-BNP professionals' platform.
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