The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on Wednesday placed listed crime suspect Subrata Bain on a seven-day remand over the killing of a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Arif Shikder.
Arif, a ward no 18 member of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was hacked and shot to death in the Hatirjheel area in the capital Dhaka on April 19.
A murder case was filed with the Hatirjeel police station in this connection.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Mustafizur Rahman on Wednesday passed the order regarding the remand after the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch sought a 10-day remand in custody for Subrata鈥檚 interrogation, said court officials.
鈥榃e have found Subrata鈥檚 link to the killing by means of supplying arms to expand dominance in the area,鈥� DB Tejgaon division deputy commissioner Mohammad Rakib Khan told 抖阴精品.
He said that they sought remand to reveal more information about the murder and arms supply.
On May 27, the Bangladesh Army arrested Subrata Bain alias Fatheh Ali and his close associate Molla Masud alias Abu Rasel Mahmud at a house on Sonar Bangla Road under Sadar upazila in Kushtia.
They were arrested at about 5:15am and, based on Subrata鈥檚 information, two of his associates, Arafat and Sharif, were arrested at a location in the Mohanagar Project area under the Hatirjheel police station in Dhaka at about 7:00am, Inter Services Public Relation Directorate officials said.
Subrata is among the 23 top crime suspects listed by the then government in 2001, police officials said.
According to members of the law enforcement agencies, Subrata, 60, began his criminal activities in the capital鈥檚 Moghbazar area in the 90鈥檚 and was the ringleader of the ferocious Seven Star Group.
He was found guilty in at least 30 murder cases.
Interpol also issued a red notice against Subrata.
