The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday placed five persons including three policemen on a three-day remand each in the case filed in connection with recovery of gold bar.
Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the CMM Court passed the remand order after hearing on a 10-day remand prayer as sought by the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case.
Those who have been placed on remand are: Rampura Police Station SI Manzurul Alam, Police Constables Md Wahidul Islam and Md Akash Chowdhuty, Police Source Mahfuzul Alam Rony and driver Sakib Hossain.On behalf of the defence, Advocate Moshiur Rahman and some other lawyers appeared to the court. The Magistrate rejected the bail petitions of the accused.
Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) of police in separate drives arrested four people, including three policemen, and recovered 149 gold bars from their possessions in the capital, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Bogra areas e arly on Monday night.
The detectives detained driver Mahfuz for interrogation. DB officials said a patrol team of Rampura Police Station challenged a microbus in Banasree area on March 13. Sensing the presence of the law enforces, two of its passengers, Samir and Munin, fled the scene. Three days later, a case was filed with the police station showing recovery of 70 gold bars and making absconding Samir and Muhin accused of it.
When they were interrogated after their arrest, Samir and Munin disclosed that there were more gold bars in the microbus. DB police launched an investigation into the case at the order of DMP Commissioner Benazir Ahmed.
After investigation, the DB police arrested SI Manzurul Alam, Constabe Wahid and Constable Akash from Rampura Police Station and police information Rana on Monday. After further interrogation, three separate DB teams conducted simultaneous drives on Monday night abd recovered 149 gold bars. – Court Correspondent
