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| Two Huji men placed on 3-day remand |
| 2008-05-26 |
| A Dhaka court yesterday placed two operatives of the banned militant organisation Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) on a three-day remand for interrogation in connection with the CPB rally bomb attack case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehsanul Haque passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced Maulana Idris Ali and Maulana Monir Hossain before the court with a prayer for 10-day remand. The blast at the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) rally at Paltan Maidan killed five people and injured many others on January 20 in 2001. Idris and Monir are also accused in a number of grenade and bomb attack cases, including the cases filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the April 14 bombing of the Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Ramna Batamul. Idris and Monir are relatives. In the forwarding report placed before the court, CID Inspector Delwar Hossain, the investigation officer of the case, said the two were involved in the attack. He said the agency would be able to make a significant breakthrough in the case and identify and arrest others involved in the attack if the two were allowed to be quizzed in remand. Several other Huji leaders and activists, including the outfit's detained top leader Mufti Hannan, have so far been shown arrested in the case. |
| Posted by:Fred |