Ankhi on fresh remand
A Brahmanbaria court yesterday granted a two-day fresh remand for Dewan Atikur Rahman Ankhi, a prime accused for carrying out synchronised attacks on Hindus in Nasirnagar upazila of the district in October last year.
Brahmanbaria Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shafiqul Islam passed the order in a case filed with Nasirnagar Police Station for vandalising the house of Rasraj Das, a local fisherman, whose name was used in a Facebook post to instigate religious sentiment prior to the attack.
Nasirnagar PS Sub-inspector Sadhan Choudhury, also investigation officer of the case, produced Ankhi, chairman of Haripur union parishad, before the court seeking five-day remand while the court granted two-day remand, said Brahmanbaria court Inspector Md Mahbubur Rahman.
Ankhi, also a local leader of ruling Awami League, was placed on a five-day remand on January 8 in a case filed for attack at a local temple during the October 30 mayhem.
A team of Bhatara Police Station in the capital arrested him on January 5.
Unruly zealots carried out attacks on the Hindus, vandalised around 100 homes and 17 temples and looted valuables in Nasirnagar over an anti-Islam Facebook post on October 30 last year.
The attackers also beat up over 100 people of the minority community.
Six of the accused in cases filed in this connection have given confessional statements in court.
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