Two different courts of Dhaka on Tuesday placed BNP Chairperson’s Adviser and journalist leader Shaukat Mahmud on a four-day fresh remand in four cases filed with Paltan, Motijheel and Rampura police stations in the capital.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Ali Mahmud Sheikh placed Shawkat Mahmud on a one-day remand in a case filed with Rampura Police Station while Magistrate Maruf Hossain placed Shawkot Mahmud to police to interrogate him for three days in the three other cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations. Police sought 40 days’ remand for the journalist leader in the four cases while Shawkat Mahmud’s counsel Md Sanaullah Miah sought bail for his client.
Earlier on August 27, the court placed Shawkat Mahmud on a one-day fresh remand in a case filed with Lalbagh Police Station. On August 24, the court placed him on four days’ remand in four cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations.
On August 22, a court sent Shawkat Mahmud to jail on the expiry of his three-day remand in an arson case filed with the city’s Ramna Police Station.
Besides, on August 19, the court placed Shawkat Mahmud on a three-day remand after his arrest from in front of Samurai Convention Centre in the city’s Panthapath area on August 18.
Miscreants set three vehicles, including two buses and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, on fire, hurling petrol bombs in the city’s Gulistan and Paltan areas on February 2 and 3 respectively.
Paltan Police Station filed three separate cases against Shawkat Mahmud and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan in connection with arson attacks. Besides, miscreants set a staff bus of ‘Titash Gas’ ablaze hurling petrol bombs on RK Mission Road in the city’s Motijheel area on February 3. Police filed a case against Shawkat Mahmud with Motijheel Police Station on that day. – Special Correspondent
