Court allows DB to take Mirza Abbas on remand
A Dhaka court yesterday allowed the Detective Branch (DB) of police to take BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas on a three-day remand granted earlier in connection with a case filed for torching a private car the day before hartal that killed one of its passengers on July 1.
Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hassan passed the order after DB Inspector Ziauzzaman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a petition seeking its permission to take the BNP leader in his custody.
Mirza Abbas was placed on a three-day remand on July 7 after its IO submitted a seven-day remand prayer for his alleged involvement with killing of passenger Faruque Hossain.
He was produced before the court yesterday on completion of his eight-day remand in two cases filed against him with Motijheel and Paltan police stations on charge of preventing police from discharging their duties during the hartal hours on June 27.
Faruque, an employee of an electric fan shop at Nawabpur in the city, lost his fight for life on July 1 suffering burn injuries for five days at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
A group of criminals stopped the private car near Moghbazar level crossing and torched it on the fatal night before June 27 hartal. His friends managed to come out of the blazing car while Faruque was badly injured.
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