A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) men on a seven-day remand in a case filed in connection with the bomb attack on the residence of Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on June 9.
Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman passed the order when Nibaran Chandra Barman, an Inspector of the Detective Branch (DB) of police and also the investigating officer (IO) of the case, produced them before the court seeking 10 days’ remand.
Those remanded are central JCD committee member Akil Mahmud, 32, and its Titumir College unit activist Mahbubul Alam, 28.
Earlier, plainclothes police in their separate drives from 3pm to 9pm on Monday arrested the two JCD men from different areas of the city.
The detectives first arrested Mahbub from the Bailey Road area and recovered a motorcycle used in the bomb attack, said DB joint commissioner Monirul Islam while briefing reporters at the DB office on Tuesday noon.
As per his information, the DB police later arrested Akil from Rupnagar area in Pallabi, he said.
The DB official said during primary interrogation, the arrested confessed to their involvement in the bomb attack on the house of Inu.
He also said the due carried out the bomb attack on the order of JCD central leaders
On June 9, unidentified miscreants hurled four to five crude bombs at the residence of the Information Minister on Darus Salam Road in Mirpur.
Source: UNB Connect
