A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday placed four men, including three Bangladeshi expatriates deported from Malaysia, on four-day remand in a case filed with the Airport police, accusing them of involvement in militancy.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Minhazur Rahman passed the order following the Anti-Terrorism Unit police had produced them before the court with seven-day remand prayer, said SM Bakhtiar Khaled, sub-inspector of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Prosecution Division.
ATU inspector KM Tariqul Islam, also the investigation officer of the case produced, accused Nazrul Islam Sohagh, Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Jahed Ahmed and Mahfuz before the court, while defence lawyers protested at the remand prayer, said court officials.
Inspector Tarikul Islam said that they had arrested Mahfuz from Muradnagar of Cumilla district on Monday evening.
鈥榃e have produced in court four of them, including three sent back from Malaysia,鈥� he added.
Meanwhile on Tuesday afternoon, the Anti-Terrorism Unit police arrested another accused named in the case, Mohiduzzman Emon, from Sathkira sadar upazila, said inspector Tarikul.
On July 5, the ATU filed a case with the Airport police against 35 Bangladeshi expatriates arrested in Malaysia for their alleged involvement in militancy under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, said the police station鈥檚 officer-in-charge Taslima Akter.
Taslima told 抖阴精品 that the four placed on remand were among the accused in the case.
On July 6, home and agriculture affairs adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that there was no militant activity in the country now, the state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
鈥榃ith your cooperation, we have rooted out militancy from the country,鈥� BSS quoted him as saying at a press briefing after visiting the Export Cargo Village and a cold storage of the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
The Malaysian police arrested 36 Bangladeshis for their alleged direct involvement in a radical movement centred on extremist beliefs and terrorist ideology.
Malaysian online news portal the Malay Mail, quoting the country鈥檚 home minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, reported on June 27 that the arrests were made that week.
