bdnews24.com :
A Dhaka court has remanded BNP leader and businessman Syed Sadat Ahmed over his suspected involvement in a 2015 arson case.
Sadat, managing director of ABN Group, was arrested in the capital,
four months after he went missing, said police. He was abducted from Dhaka’s Banani on Aug 22, according to his family. Police detained him in the city’s Rampura on Saturday.
Sadat was later implicated in the case over the arson of a car in Dhaka’s Moghbazar almost two years ago.
A vice-president of the BNP’s Chittagong South unit, Sadat had been a member of the party’s Central Executive Committee. According to the case document, a car was set afire from a BNP demonstration on Jan 9, 2015, when the party was enforcing a countrywide rail, road and waterways blockade.
The driver of the car, who had suffered severe burns, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Jan 15, it said. On Sunday, police produced Sadat before a metropolitan magistrate and sought 10 days to interrogate him in custody. Pleading to court against remand, defence counsel Syed Mizanur Rahman said: “He was taken away by law enforcers four months ago after picking up his son from school. He was actually arrested back then. An abduction case was filed with the Cantonment Police Station, which the police ignore.”
Sadat, who was in the dock, remained silent in court. After hearing the matter, the court granted police three days to quiz him.
A Dhaka court has remanded BNP leader and businessman Syed Sadat Ahmed over his suspected involvement in a 2015 arson case.
Sadat, managing director of ABN Group, was arrested in the capital,
four months after he went missing, said police. He was abducted from Dhaka’s Banani on Aug 22, according to his family. Police detained him in the city’s Rampura on Saturday.
Sadat was later implicated in the case over the arson of a car in Dhaka’s Moghbazar almost two years ago.
A vice-president of the BNP’s Chittagong South unit, Sadat had been a member of the party’s Central Executive Committee. According to the case document, a car was set afire from a BNP demonstration on Jan 9, 2015, when the party was enforcing a countrywide rail, road and waterways blockade.
The driver of the car, who had suffered severe burns, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Jan 15, it said. On Sunday, police produced Sadat before a metropolitan magistrate and sought 10 days to interrogate him in custody. Pleading to court against remand, defence counsel Syed Mizanur Rahman said: “He was taken away by law enforcers four months ago after picking up his son from school. He was actually arrested back then. An abduction case was filed with the Cantonment Police Station, which the police ignore.”
Sadat, who was in the dock, remained silent in court. After hearing the matter, the court granted police three days to quiz him.
