28 female Jamaat activists put on remand

28 female Jamaat activists arrested from city's Mohammadpur area on Thursday were produced before the court on Friday. Later they were placed on 2-day remand.
28 female Jamaat activists arrested from city's Mohammadpur area on Thursday were produced before the court on Friday. Later they were placed on 2-day remand.
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UNB, Dhaka :
A court here on Friday placed 28 female activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, arrested from the city’s Mohammadpur area on Thursday, on a two-day remand in a case filed under the Special Powers Act.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Delwar Hossain passed the order after officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Mohammadpur Police Station  
Md Shafiqul Islam, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court seeking a seven-day remand, said General Recording Officer of the court sub-inspector Nizam Uddin.
Based on a tip-off, a team of Mohammadur Police Station cordoned off a house at Tajmahal road in Mohammadpur on Thursday afternoon and arrested the 28 female Jamaat activists.
Various types of documents, including leaflets and religious books, were also recovered from their possession.
Later, a case was filed against them under the Special Powers Act.
Briefing reporters at the police station on Friday, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Tejgaon Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Biplab Kumar Sarkar said the female Jamaat members gathered at the house to plan acts of sabotage to ’embarrass’ the government. Several of the arrested women are family members of some convicted war criminals, he said. Biplab Kumar said some of them came from outside Dhaka and they had planned to carry our subversive activities under the cover of preaching religion through ‘Tablig Jamaat’.
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