A court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) placed Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, an alleged aid of India’s top terrorist and mafia don Daud Ibrahim, on a three-day remand in a case filed under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).Magistrate Mohammad Nuru Mia of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order rejecting his a bail petition submitted on his behalf by his lawyer Mohammad
Hemayet Uddin Khan Hiron.
Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) Police Sub-Inspector and also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, Md Golam Rasul produced Daud to the court seeking a seven-day remand.
A DB team of police nabbed Daud Merchant, a resident of Sharifa Road in Mumbai, India, from the city’s Khilgaon intersection under section 54 of the CrPC on Tuesday afternoon, two days after his release from Kashimpur jail on bail.
In 2009, police of Bangladesh arrested him for intruding into the country without valid documents and he was sent to the jail. Later, in 2012, he secured bail from the court. – Court Correspondent
