Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday placed three Hefazat-e-Islam men, including two of central leaders, on a five-day remand each in a case filed over the mayhem in Dhaka on May 5, 2013.
The accused people are Hefazat-e-Islam Assistant Organising Secretary Mufti Shakhawat Hossain Razi, Assistant Secretary General Maulana Monzurul Islam Afendi and Hefajat activist Mufti Fakhrul Islam.
Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order after Investigation Officer
Harun-Or-Rashid produced the Hefajat-men in the court with a 10-day remand plea in a case filed with Paltan Police Station of the city.
In the forwarding report, IO Harun, Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police, said that he found their involvement in the incident, and they need to be put on remand to have more information about the mayhem.
Claiming themselves innocent, all three Hefazat men told the court that they were not present at the place of occurrence and they were not involved with the incident. The three accused were arrested from the different places of the capital on Wednesday.
On May 5, 2013, thousands of members of Hefazat, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist organisation, clashed with law enforcers and ruling Awami League men, making Motijheel and Paltan a battlefield.
They allegedly set fire to hundreds of shops, vehicles and police outposts and looted stores, including those with Islamic books. Clashes also took place in other districts for few days. A total of 83 cases were filed in seven districts including Dhaka, accusing 3,416 named and 84,796 unnamed people. Many of the accused were from Hefajat, Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP.
