Court Correspondent :
A court of Narayanganj yesterday placed four leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam on remand in Narayanganj. A day earlier, they were arrested in two cases filed in connection with the alleged mayhem centering the “confinement” of Hefazat’s Joint General Secretary Mamunul Haque at a resort in Sonargaon upazila of the district.
Senior Judicial Magistrate of Narayanganj, Ahmed Kabir granted three-day remand each for the four accused in the cases filed by the police, our local source said.
The accused are Sonargaon upazila Hefazat Ameer Mahiuddin (50), Vice President Moazzem
Hossain (49), Secretary Shahjahan Shiblee (43) and member Iqbal Hossain (50), who is also the President of Khelafat Majlish’s Sonargaon upazila unit.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the four on Sunday and handed them over to police on Monday morning, said RAB-11 Senior Assistant Director Jashim Uddin Chowdhury.
RAB-11 members, acting on a tip-off, on Sunday afternoon arrested five people including the four from Dhaka’s Jurain Rail Line area, he said.
Later, after interrogation, RAB released Ferdaus Rahman, Hefazat’s Narayanganj city unit President, as he was not accused in the case, the official added.
He also said that at least six cases were filed in connection with the vandalism and chaos over “confinement” of Mamunul Haque on April 3. Of those, police filed two cases.
Mohiuddin has been made the prime accused in one of the cases and all four went into hiding since the cases were filed, he added.
Jayedul Alam, Superintendent of Police, of Sadar upazila said that they sought seven days’ remand for the accused in the court yesterday.
