Jamaat amir’s son on fresh remand over militancy link

A Dhaka court on Monday placed two people including the son of Jamaat-e-Islami amir on a two-day fresh remand in a case lodged under Anti-Terrorism Act with capital's Jatrabari Police Station.

The two remanded accused are – Rafat Sadik Saifullah, son of Jamaat ameer Dr Md Shafikur Rahman and Arif Fahim Siddiqui.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Islam passed the order as police produced the duo before the court after end of their three-day remand in the case and pleaded to place them on seven-day fresh remand. The defence however, pleaded for scraping the remand plea and granting them bail.