Threat to Pmo
Email senders remanded
Staff Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday remanded two young men in police custody enabling law-enforcers to grill them on charge of threatening to blow up the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) by email. Police said the pair confessed to the crime, saying they used the ruse to frame one of their rivals for the crime. Dhanmondi police took the two -- Khondoker Hasan Shariar Dipu, 22, and Shafaet Wahid Sohel, 29, -- to the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka. The police prayed for taking the pair on a five-day remand, saying the two needed to be thoroughly interrogated to find out their motives and others involved in the threat. Police said the pair mailed the offices of the inspector general of police and Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) on August 25, threatening to raze down the PMO if it did not pay Tk 3 crore to Ahsan Habib Selim Reza of Tallabagh in Dhanmondi in a week. Tracking down Dipu through the email, police arrested him on Tuesday at his house on New Elephant Road and seized his personal computer that they claim carried his links to the crime. Pressed by the police, Dipu asked Wahid to go to Sat Masjid Road in Dhanmondi where they captured him. Sub-Inspector Shahadat Hossain filed a case under the Speedy Trial Act (Law and Order Disruption) also the same day. "They confessed to committing the crime to frame Ahsan," police said.
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