Two JCD leaders re-arrested at jail gate
Police yesterday re-arrested two leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), BNP-backed student organisation, at the gate of Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur in connection with killing a bus driver.
Amirul Islam Khan Alim, general secretary of JCD, and Kamal Anwar Ahmed, general secretary of JCD Dhaka city (north), were released from the prison on bail in an arson case.
After their re-arrest, Moksedur Rahman, a sub-Inspector of Khilgaon Police Station, also investigation officer of the bus driver killing case, produced them before Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Rezaul Karim with a 10-day remand prayer.
The court, however, placed them on a five-day remand each.
The two Chhatra Dal leaders had been in jail since May 16 in the arson case, which was filed against them for torching a vehicle in front of the Prime Minister's Office on April 29.
They were later sued over their involvement in killing the bus driver, Badar Ali Beg, 48, who was burnt to death after picketers set the vehicle on fire in the capital's Khilgaon during the April 21 hartal. Badar Ali was asleep inside the bus.
In yesterday's remand prayer, the investigator said Alim and Kamal were indirectly involved in the killing of the bus driver.
He said people who were arrested earlier in the case divulged the names of the two leaders. So they were remanded to find out vital clues about the killing, he added.
Police have so far arrested nine people, including BNP leader Khairul Kabir Khokon and three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, for their alleged involvement in the killing.
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