CID to quiz Sayedee, Bhagne Shahid

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed the CID to interrogate Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) acting chief Anwar Alam, also known as Nazmul and Bhagne Shahid, face to face to find out the clues about the attacks on life of Prof Humayun Azad.
Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hassan passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department Inspector Mustafizur Rahman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced Sayedee before it with a seven-day remand prayer. The court, however, placed him on a four-day remand.
Sayedee was earlier placed on an eight-day remand in four phases in the case while Bhagne Shahid was earlier on Tuesday placed on a four-day remand in the same case.
In the forwarding report placed before the court yesterday, Mustafizur said the information derived from Sayedee and Bhagne Shahid about the attacks on Azad was being verified. So, the IO prayed for granting a seven-day remand to interrogate face to face Sayedee and Bhagne Shahid to gather more information for committing such offences.
On February 27, 2004, assailants stabbed prominent writer Humayun Azad brutally with machetes in front of Bangla Academy when he was on the way to his residence.
Bhagne Shahid was shown arrested in the case on July 21 for his alleged involvement with an attempt to kill Prof Humayun Azad.
Bhagne Shahid, who was appointed the top executive of the outfit after the arrest of their chief Saidur Rahman in late May this year, was arrested from a house near Bogra bypass area on July 13.
Saidur took the helm of the organisation following the execution of its founding head Shaikh Abdur Rahman along with its five other kingpins in 2008.