Court asks DB to quiz city Jamaat chief at jail gate
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a five-day remand prayer for Rafiqul Islam Khan, Dhaka city unit chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and directed Detective Branch (DB) of police to interrogate him for two additional days at the prison gate in the case filed for torching a bus.
Rafiqul was charged with setting a bus ablaze in capital on the day before the BNP's June 27 hartal. He was produced before the court yesterday on completion of his two-day remand in the same case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ismail Hossain also ordered to send Rafiqul to jail after DB Inspector Bazlur Rahman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced the Jamaat leader before it with a prayer for a five-day remand.
Rafiqul already went through a three-day remand in a case filed with Ramna Police Station for torching a car on June 26, which killed one of its passengers afterwards.
Detectives arrested Rafiqul from his Mirpur residence on August 25, in connection with the car torching case.
Two days before his arrest, Rafiqul Islam got anticipatory bails in six cases filed against him on charges of preventing police from performing duties, and hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims.
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