UNB, Dhaka :A court here on Wednesday placed BNP joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury on a five-day fresh remand in a sedition case filed with Gulshan Police Station.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan passed the order when DB inspector Fazlur Rahman produced him before the court on completion of his seven-day remand, seeking a 7-day fresh remand.The court also rejected a bail petition filed by Aslam’s counsel Sanaullah Mia. On May 31, a court placed Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand in the case. On May 26, DB inspector Golam Rabbani filed a sedition case against Aslam Chowdhury. Plainclothes police arrested Aslam from the city on May 15 for his alleged involvement in an anti-state plot. Several local newspapers published reports attaching more than one photographs of the BNP leader’s meeting with Israeli influential leader Mendi N Safadi.But, Aslam denied any conspiracy against the government although he admitted to meeting Safadi in a tea party in India.
