CID may talk with Hasina today

A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) may go to the sub-jail today to record the statement of Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina in connection with a case filed for the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed a Harkatul Jihad (Huji) activist Hafez Maulana Abu Taher on a seven-day fresh remand in connection with the same case.
Deputy Inspector General (prison) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui yesterday told The Daily Star that a team of CID including the investigation officer (IO) of the case might go to the sub-jail to record Hasina's statement as an eyewitness of the incident.
However, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Fazlul Kabir of CID, the IO of the case, refused to comment on the matter.
On November 13, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) AKM Enamul Haque gave the IO permission to record Hasina's statement after an application was submitted before the court in this regard.
Receiving a court order, the jail authorities sent a letter to the IO asking him to go to the sub-jail to record Hasina's statement.
In the same case, CID produced Taher before the court yesterday afternoon with a seven-day remand prayer.
In the forwarding report, the IO said Taher was involved in the incident. So he needs to be quizzed to find out his absconding accomplices and the places where the grenades came from.
Advocate Faisal Hassan Arif submitted a petition for bail and cancellation of the remand prayer saying his client was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him.
Rejecting the bail petition the court placed Taher on a seven-day remand.
Taher was earlier placed on five days' remand in two phases.
Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Mohibullah alias Mojibur Rahman and four of their accomplices in their confessional statements stated that they orchestrated the attacks to kill Awami League President Sheikh Hasina.
A group of miscreants made the ghastly attack that left 24 people dead and injured at least 300 people.
CPB RALLY BLAST CASE
The hearing of the seven-day remand prayer to interrogate Hannan's brother Mohibullah and their accomplice Sharif Shahidul Alam alias Bipul will be held on November 25 in their presence in connection with a bomb blasts case.
The case was filed in connection with bomb blasts on a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) at Paltan Maidan on January 21, 2001. Five people were killed and 50 injured in the incident.
CID Inspector Delwar Hossain, the IO of the case, submitted a seven-day remand prayer on November 13 to interrogate them.
Earlier, they along with Hannan were taken on remand for several days.
Following the attack on the CPB rally, CPB President Monzurul Ahsan Khan filed the case with Motijheel Police Station saying a group of anti-state conspirators made the attack.
Police arrested 12 people at that time but the CID submitted the final report on December 17, 2003 saying correct, impartial and reliable pieces of evidence were not found to prove the charges brought against the arrestees.
The IO said he will press charges if sufficient evidence is found against the arrestees.
The IO submitted a petition with the CMM court for reinvestigation into the case on January 27, 2005 and the court directed him for fresh probe into the case.