[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted seven days of remand to the acting chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team and his two cohorts.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan granted the remand after Investigation Officer DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman produced them before the court on Friday afternoon.
The three were shown incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in secular writer and blogger Avijit Roy murder case.
The arrestees are acting chief Abul Bashar -- the younger brother of Ansarullah chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani -- and the outfit's media wing members Julhas Biswas and Jafran Hossain.
The three members of the radical Islamist outfit were picked up by a RAB 3 team around 5am Thursday.
On February 26, writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed by the five Ansarullah members. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya survived the attack, but was maimed.
On May 12, two months after Avijit's murder, assailants hacked to death secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet. According to RAB, the two murders were done by the same Ansarullah team.