UNB, Dhaka :
A court here on Thursday sent Nazmul Maksud Murad, an accused in the case filed for attempting to kill Sheikh Hasina, was sent to jail on Thursday, a day after he was brought back home from the USA through the Interpol.
As Murad was produced before the court of Fourth Additional Metropolitan Magistrate AHM Habibur
Rahman, he passed the order to send him to jail after showing him arrested in two cases.
First additional sessions judge Zakia Parveen also ordered that Murad be sent to jail showing him arrested in another case. Murad along with 7-8 miscreants opened fire and hurled bombs and grenades targeting Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi House on August 11, 1989.
A case was filed with Dhanmondi Police Station in this connection on February 20, 1997 against 16 people, including Murad. Murad had fled to the US on October 3, 1996 and he sought political asylum there as an activist of Freedom Party.
In 2011, CID issued a notice to the US through the Interpol. Later, American Homeland Security arrested Murad on February 2, 2012. American Homeland Security official handed him over to the CID police of Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Murad had been a fugitive accused in two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station.
