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| Pleas for stay on remand rejected |
| 2010-07-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday summarily rejected three separate petitions for staying remand of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in three cases. Earlier on June 30, another Dhaka court placed them on ten days' remand in the cases filed for torching vehicles, preventing police from duties and on sedition charge. Judge (in charge) Ismail Hossain of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order in response to the petitions submitted by the lawyers of the accused. In the order, the judge said it would not interfere with investigation as the cases are now at the primary stage. So, the petitions for staying remand of the Jamaat leaders were rejected. In the petitions, lawyers mentioned the order for granting remand was illegal as their clients' names were not included in the first information reports. The three Jamaat leaders are now being quizzed in the case filed for blocking the road of President Zillur Rahman's motorcade which was moving to visit the airport. The three were shown arrested for their involvement with patronising their activists who vandalised the police vehicles and prevented them from performing duties. The cases were filed with Ramna, Paltan and Uttara police stations on different dates. They were also remanded for six days in two more cases filed with Paltan police station for preventing police from discharging their duties during hartal hours on June 27. The same court yesterday rejected bails of 35 Jamaat-Shibir activists in the case filed with Paltan police station for obstructing police from discharging their duties. |
| Posted by:Fred |