2013 mayhem in Dhaka: Hefajat leader Kashemi on fresh 3-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed Monir Hossain Kashemi, finance affairs secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam's now-dissolved central committee, on a fresh three-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmuda Akhter passed the order after Md Forman Ali, a sub-inspector of Detective Branch of police and also investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.

He was produced before the court today on completion of his four-day remand in the case.

In the remand prayer, the IO said Kashemi and other FIR-named accused carried out the mayhem in Paltan, Shapla Chatter and other places in the capital on May 5, 2013. He was intensively interrogated during the four-day remand. But he refused to disclose vital clues about the mayhem and whereabouts of others.

So, he needs to be remanded again to find out whereabouts of others responsible, the IO added.

On the other hand, the defence submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer on grounds that their client was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him.

Kashemi was arrested on May 21 from Dhaka's Baridhara area.

Kashemi, also joint secretary general of the Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam, was also found involved in the violence in Narayanganj during the protest against the visit of the Indian prime minister in March this year.