A Dhaka court today (15 December) placed four members of the banned organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on a two-day remand each in an anti-terrorism act case filed with the capital’s Kalabagan Police Station.
The four remanded accused are the former president of BCL’s Dhaka University Shamsunnahar Hall unit Nishita Iqbal Nodi, former joint general secretary of Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall Al Fatara Kazol, former BCL activists Shovon Rahman and Hasan Imam Shovon. Nishita is also the former vice president of BCL.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced the four before the court and pleaded to place them on a seven-day remand each.
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According to the case documents, leaders and activists of the banned BCL brought out a sudden procession in the capital’s Kalabagan area around 6am on 13 December.
They chanted different anti-government slogans at the time. Police said the arrested were plotting to embarrass the government through different illegal activities.
Detective Branch of police on the night of December 14 arrested the four from the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area.
