Court sends Sholakia attack suspect Jahidul to jail after police remand

A Kishoreganj court has sent to jail custody one of the two men arrested for their suspected involvement in an attack on a police check-post at Kishoreganj’s Sholakia earlier this month.

Jahidul Haque alias ‘Tanim’, 24, was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Abdus Salam Khan’s court on Tuesday after 10 days in police custody, where he was interrogated for his suspected involved in the attack.

After Jahidul was ordered to jail, Kishoreganj Model Police Station OC Mir Mosharraf Hossain told bdnews24.com: “The accused has given a lot of information. We are looking into them.

“But we can’t disclose them for the sake of the investigation.”

Jahidul was arrested after the bomb attack on police personnel and a gunfight between law enforcers and the attackers on July 7 morning. The attack was launched moments before the main Eid prayers at the Sholakia Eidgah ground.

Two policemen were killed in the attack. While the law enforcers gunned down one of the attackers, a stray bullet had killed a woman in a nearby house during the exchange of fire.

Jahidul and another youth named Shafiul Islam, who also goes by the aliases Shariful Islam, Saiful Islam, Abu Mokaddel, ‘Don’ and ‘Sohan’, were nabbed by police and RAB later.

Shafiul hails from Dinajpur’s Ghorhaghat and Jahidul from Kishoreganj’s Paschim Tarapasha.

Three days after the attack, Pakundia police Inspector Md Shamsuddin lodged an anti-terrorism case accusing the two, along with several other unidentified persons, at Kishoreganj Model Police Station.

Shamsudin was in-charge of the check-post that was attacked.