Aslam Chy of BNP on 7-day remand in sedition case
A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand in a sedition case filed allegedly for hatching a conspiracy with Israel's Likud Party and its intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Golam Nabi passed the order after Fazlul Haque, inspector of Detective Branch of police, produced Aslam before his court with a 10-day remand prayer in the case.
In the remand prayer, the IO said Aslam was involved in a conspiracy with Likud Party and Mossad. So he needs to be remanded to find out the vital clues.
Defence sought cancellation of the remand prayer and appealed to the court to grant their client bail saying that Aslam was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him politically.
Earlier on May 27, Aslam was shown arrested in the case 11 days after he was sued for the alleged sedition on May 26.
Earlier on May 15, Aslam was picked up from the capital's Khilkhet over the alleged plot with Israel to topple the Bangladesh government. Later, he was remanded for seven days showing arrested under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
On May 24, he was also shown arrested in two arson cases filed during BNP-led 20-party alliance's anti-government agitation in January last year. Police also prayed for 20 days' remand. But the court fixed June 6 for remand hearing.
Known to be a trusted lieutenant of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, Chittagong-based businessman Aslam came under severe criticism from in and outside the party after several photographs went viral in social media showing him with Israeli politician Mendi N Safadi, also chief of Safadi Center for International Diplomacy and Public Relations.
Newspapers ran reports that he “conspired” with the Israeli politician to overthrow the Awami League government in Bangladesh.
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