Bhagne Shahid on 4-day fresh remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed acting chief of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Anwar Alam, also known as Nazmul and Bhagne Shahid, on a four-day fresh remand in connection with a case on an attempt on life of Prof Humayun Azad.
He was earlier shown arrested in the case for his alleged involvement with an attempt to kill Prof Humayun Azad.
Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hasan passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Mustafizur Rahman, also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before it on completion of his four-day remand. CID also submitted a ten-day further remand for interrogation.
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.
Shahid is a charge-sheeted accused in the case and was shown arrested on July 21.
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.