BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury remanded in two cases of violence

After three rounds of police interrogation on charges of treason, BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury will be now grilled in two violence-related cases.

Police produced Aslam before two different Dhaka courts on Wednesday and sought ten days’ remand in each of the cases.

The courts granted one day each for the two cases filed with the Motijheel and Lalbagh police stations.

Aslam has been charged with vandalism, arson and obstruction to police duty in the violence cases by filed by the police stations in Dhaka.

He was in the limelight recently because of his meeting with Israel’s Likud Party leader Mendi N Safadi during an event in New Delhi this year.

Safadi was a former advisor to Israeli deputy minister MK Ayoub Karar. He also runs the Mendi N Safadi Center for International Diplomacy and Public Relations.

Aslam was arrested on May 15, and was produced before a Dhaka court the next day which remanded him in police custody for seven days.

After the remand expired, police, on May 24, showed him arrested in the violence cases and filed a remand plea in the court over the charges.

On May 26, police initiated a case on charges of treason over a ‘plot with Israel’. Aslam had been remanded twice for 12 days in the case.

Leaders of the ruling Awami League have claimed that the meeting between the two was part of a conspiracy to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with help of Israeli spy agency Mossad.

But the BNP has refuted the allegation, saying Aslam’s India trip was ‘personal’.

Aslam and Safadi both have admitted to meeting each other in Delhi but claimed nothing covert was discussed.