10-day remand for Nagari sought

Police on Tuesday produced detained Secretary General of the Hifazat-e-Islam Junaid Babu Nagari before a Dhaka court with a plea to interrogate him in police custody for 10 days.

Sub-Inspector of the Motijheel Police Station Sheikh Mofizur Rahman made the remand appeal. The leader of the Chittagong-based radical organization was arrested in a case filed for killing police personnel during Sunday’s mayhem in the city’s Motijheel.

Metropolitan Magistrate Tarique Mainul Islam Bhuiyan will hear the plea, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution and Information Department) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Anisur Rahman told bdnews24.com.

Hefajat activists, in collaboration with the Jamaat and Shibir, had unleashed spate of violence in the city’s Motijheel area on Sunday.

They set ablaze dozens of religious book shops — among many other makeshift vending stalls — near Baitul National Mukarram Mosque on Sunday evening.

A few thousand shops, including those dealings in jewellery, electronic goods and furniture were looted at Paltan, Baitul Mokkaram and stadium markets during the violence.

Nagari was arrested from the city’s Lalbagh area on Monday night in connection with the violence that had left at least 23 people dead in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Chittagong.

Nagari is a teacher at the Darul Ulum Muinul Alam Madrasa at Hathazari in Chittagong.