BSS :
A court here on Sunday placed five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its secretary general Mia Golam Porwar, on two-day remand each afresh in a case lodged under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The other remanded accused are- Jamaat assistant secretary generals Rafiqul Islam Khan, central executive council members Ijjat Ullah and
Mobarak Hossain and former president of Islami Chhatra Shibir Yeasin Arafat.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur Rahman passed the order as police produced the five before the court and pleaded to place them on 10-day remand each again in the case lodged with the capital’s Bhatara Police Station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter on September 7 had placed nine leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, including Mia Golam Porwar, on four-day remand each in the same case.
Police on September 6 arrested them from a flat in Block-D of Bashundhara residential area.
Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMPs) Gulshan zone Md Asaduzzaman later said the accused had gathered in the flat to plan subversive activities.
