A Dhaka court placed BNP chairperson’s adviser Shawkat Mahmud on a four-day fresh remand in four separate arson and vandalism cases on Monday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order after Shawkat was produced before court on Monday and asked for 40 day remand in the cases.
Police’s prayers seeking his remand for 40 more days in four other cases was not heard by the court on Monday.
The law enforcers arrested Shawkat, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalist (BFUJ), on Sunday and sought remand for 80 days.
Shawkat’s lawyer Masud Ahmed Talukdar submitted four separate petitions seeking bail along with cancelation of the remand prayers.
The cases were filed for assaulting policemen, preventing them from discharging their duties, damaging and torching vehicles, and throwing crude and petrol bombs at passengers’ buses in Dhaka’s Paltan and Motijheel areas in January and February this year during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s blockades.
The cases were filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations.
On Saturday, Shawkat was sent to jail on completion of his three-day remand in a case filed for the death of a private car driver in an arson attack in January.
Law enforcers detained him on August 18 from the city’s Panthapath area when he went to a convention centre to attend a press briefing of pro-BNP professionals’ platform, Adarsha Dhaka Andolan.
Source: Ittefaq
