7 Tahrir men on 2-day remand

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday placed seven activists of banned Islamist outfit Hizbut Tahrir on a 2-day remand for police interrogation.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Anwar Sadat granted the remand when police produced them before the court with 3-day remand plea.

The detained Tahrir activists are Tarek Saifullah, Ashraful Karim, Safayet Jamil Sohagh, Fayad Hossain Qaium, Shahdat Haque Munna, Mahmud Hasan and Nur Mohammad.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-2), in separate drives, arrested them from city’s Mohammadpur and Dhanmondi areas on June 23.

RAB also recovered a laptop, four computers, eight mobile phone sets, hundreds of leaflets, CDs and books from their possession.

BDST: 1930 HRS, JUN 25, 2012

Edited by:
Abul Kalam Azad, Newsroom Editor
M. Mahbub Alam, Asst Output Editor