18 Jamaat, Shibir men remanded
A Dhaka court today placed 18 alleged leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir on remand for different terms in a case filed under Special Power Act.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sajjadur Rahman granted three-day remand for two--Fakhruddin and Md Shamim--and the rest were ordered for 2-day remand each.
Nur Mohammad, sub-inspector of Badda Police Station, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced them before the CMM court with 10-day remand prayer for each.
The 18 were detained yesterday from the capital’s Badda area while holding “a secret meeting” at a school there.
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The detainees include Jamaat's Badda unit chief Fakhruddin Keyaetullah, said Abdul Jalil, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station.
The meeting was taking place at the Badda branch of Islamic International School and College, police said.
Shamsunnahar Nizami, widow of executed war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, is the principal of the institution, said Jalil.
The detainees were planning to carry out subversive activities ahead of the Supreme Court verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali, one police official claimed, asking not to be named.
Police recovered some anti-government leaflets from the meeting place, said the OC.
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