Jamaat ameer Maqbul on fresh remand

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad was shown arrested and remanded again yesterday for three days in an arson case filed with Motijheel Police Station in January 2015.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order after Sub-Inspector Anwar Hossain of Detective Branch of police and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted an application for showing him arrested in the case.

According to the case statement, it was alleged that a group of BNP-led-20-party alliance leaders and activists including BNP Secretary General Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Jamaat Ameer Maqbul torched a vehicle by throwing petrol at AGB Colony in Mojheel area on January 4, 2015.     

Following the incident, the case was filed against 81 including Fakhrul and Maqbul with Motijheel Police Station.

Earlier on October 10, Maqbul Ahmad was placed on a ten-day remand in connection with two cases.

Nine top Jamaat leaders including Maqbul were detained in Dhaka's Uttara on the night of October 9 on charge of holding a "secret" meeting there to carry out subversive activities.