'Murder plot' against Joy: DB wants Mahmudur shown arrested

Detectives appealed to a Dhaka court today to show Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman arrested in the case filed for alleged attempts to abduct and murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

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Hassan Arafat, assistant commissioner of Detective Branch of police and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted an application with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Nurunnabi to show Mahmudur Rahman arrested in the case.

The IO also prayed for a ten-day remand to quiz Mahmudur about the incident.

The court fixed April 25 to hear the prayer submitted by the DB official in presence of Mahmudur.

THE CASE

Masrukur Rahman Khaled, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch (south), told this correspondent that they were investigating the charges of attempts to abduct and murder Joy, who lives in the US.

“He [Rehman] has been arrested since his involvement was found,” he added.

The case was filed by DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman with Paltan Police Station in August last year.

In the case, police mentioned the name of Mohammad Ullah Mamun, vice-president of BNP's cultural wing Jasas, as a conspirator.

The case statement says Mamun and some top leaders of the BNP and its allies met in the UK, the US and in the capital's Paltan and other parts of the country before September 2012 and conspired to abduct and kill the PM's son.

In March last year, Mamun's son Rizve Ahmed Caesar was convicted by a US court for bribing an FBI special agent to collect information regarding a Bangladeshi political figure.

The US Justice Department did not name the figure, but it is thought that it was Joy.

In a Facebook post on March 9 last year, Joy accused BNP leaders of conspiring to abduct and kill him.