The police have arrested a Bangladeshi-origin US national at Minto Road in Dhaka for his suspicious movements and suspected conspiracy to overthrow the interim government.
The suspect, Enayet Karim Chowdhury, 55, was arrested on Saturday.
The police also seized a sports utility vehicle that he had been using during his arrest and two iPhones from his possession.
Ramna police station鈥檚 sub-inspector Azizul Hakim produced him before a metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka, showing him arrested under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and submitted a petition seeking the court鈥檚 permission to take him in police custody for seven days for interrogation.
Metropolitan magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi sent Enayet to jail and set Monday to hear the petition.
In its petition seeking the court鈥檚 permission to take the suspect in custody, the police said that the suspect was 鈥榚ngaged in efforts to destabilise public security and sovereignty by acting as an agent of a foreign intelligence service to overthrow the Bangladesh interim government.
It said that further legal actions would be taken after the investigation.
The petition said that the police needed to interrogate the suspect in order to trace other individuals allegedly involved in the conspiracy to topple the interim government.
It said that Enayet, son of Abdul Karim Chowdhury, was born in Bangladesh but had been residing in New York in the United States. He now stays in the Gulshan-2 area in Dhaka.
On Saturday, the petition said, law enforcement officers intercepted Enayet鈥檚 SUV while he had been moving suspiciously in the Minto Road area.
During interrogation, he failed to provide satisfactory answers, prompting the police to detain him and seize his two iPhones.
Preliminary analysis of the devices reportedly revealed sensitive information suggesting a plot against the current government, said the petition.
During interrogation, Enayet admitted that he was a contract-based agent of a foreign intelligence agency, the petition said.
Enayet told the police that he arrived in Dhaka on September 6 from New York, initially stayed at the Sonargaon Hotel until September 7, before moving to Gulshan, according to the petition.
It also stated that he held several secret meetings with senior government policymakers, influential political leaders, and business figures in recent days.
According to the petition, Enayet told the police that the US government was disappointed with Bangladesh鈥檚 interim administration and that the Supreme Court on October 21 would cancel a verdict that abolished the caretaker government system, paving the way for the reinstatement of a caretaker government.
Then, a national government or caretaker government will be formed with the support of the army and the chief of the government and other participants of the government would be decided by America, said the police petition.
He also acknowledged that he had been gathering intelligence on the current political situation, key officials, and different political party leaders, which he was passing on to his controlling intelligence agency, it said.
Enayet provided his American passport to the police and said that he migrated to the US in 1988 and received US citizenship in 2004, it said.
It said that he had neither a Bangladeshi passport nor a national identity card.
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