A Dhaka court Monday placed two people including the son of Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami 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.
After hearing both the sides, the court placed the two accused on two-day fresh remand. A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested the duo on November 9 from Sylhet.
According to the police, Rafat is a top leader of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam’s Sylhet chapter and used to run jihadi activities there for long. Police recently arrested three militants from the capital’s Jatrabari area and while interrogating the three, they took the name of Rahat as one of their leaders.
