Hannan remanded again
Court Correspondent
Mufti Abdul Hannan, operations commander of the banned Harkatul Jihad's Bangladesh chapter, was placed on a fresh three-day remand yesterday on charges of the August 17 countrywide bomb blasts.Detective Branch (DB) of police produced Hannan before the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka at 3:00pm on completion of the five-day remand in the case filed for the blasts on the Dhaka University campus. Two Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members took the glum looking Hannan to the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shafiqul Islam. Hannan was wearing a helmet and a bulletproof vest. The forwarding report placed by police before the court said Hannan gave nicknames of many involved in the bombings. He needs to be further quizzed for the details of those people, the report added, appealing for a further 10-day remand. Hannan told the court that he is sick and asked for treatment in a hospital. The court, however, told him that the police would provide him treatment if needed during his remand. After the hearing the court granted a three-day remand for further interrogation and directed the investigating officer (IO) to take necessary steps for his treatment. Hannan was arrested at Madhya Badda in Dhaka on October 1 after several years of remaining in hiding. He was later shown arrested in three bomb blast cases filed with Tejgaon and Ramna Police Stations and taken on a 27-day remand in four phases.
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