A Dhaka court yesterday placed President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Sultan Salahuddin Tuku on a two-day remand, hours after his arrest from the city's Gulshan area in a case of pre-hartal arson that killed a taxicab passenger last year.
Detective Branch (DB) of police produced Tuku before the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court seeking a 10-day remand for grilling him. Magistrate Harun-Or-Rashid granted remand for two days.
Tuku is one of the brothers of former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, a detainee in the August 21 grenade attack cases. His two other fugitive brothers -- Maulana Tajuddin and Ratul Babu -- are also accused in the cases.
Detectives picked him up from one of his brother's house in Gulshan around 3:00am for his involvement in the arson that killed taxicab passenger Faruk Hossain at Moghbazar on June 26 night last year, Md Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of DB (south), told The Daily Star.
Hartal supporters allegedly set a taxicab afire near Moghbazar level crossing and Faruk was burnt alive as he could not get out of the car.
"Police arrested me to harass politically," claimed the JCD chief at the DB office premises.
Source : The Daily Star
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