Police move court to question Mahmudur Rahman over plot to abduct and murder Joy

Police have pleaded with court to question daily ‘Amar Desh’ Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman for 10 days in a case over plot to abduct and kill the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy.

Court Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 18 April 2016, 01:11 PM
Updated : 18 April 2016, 01:11 PM

Detective Branch Assistant Commissioner Hasan Arafat produced Rahman before Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court to seek the remand permission on Monday.

Magistrate Md Noor Nabi fixed Apr 25 to hear the petition, court police official Mirash Uddin told bdnews24.com.

On Saturday, police arrested senior journalist Shafik Rehman in the case with Paltan station.

The case had been started against the BNP’s US unit leader Mohammad Ullah Mamun.

His son Rizve Ahmed Caesar, FBI Special Agent Robert Lustyik, and another US citizen, Johannes Thaler, had been sentenced to several terms in jail in the US over the plot.

In the verdict against Caesar, the US court said the convict had bribed Lustyik to get information to harm a 'prominent' Bangladesh national. Thaler brokered the deal.

The court said Caesar had supplied the information to 'a Bangladeshi journalist'.

On Sunday, police said they would show Mahmudur, already in jail in a number of cases over violence, arrested in the case over the Joy plot.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said another person in Bangladesh was involved in the plot.