Ex-MP from Jamaat Shahjahan Chowdhury put on 3-day remand

A Chattogram Court on Saturday placed Shahjahan Chowdhury, a former MP and central leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, on a three-day remand in the case filed over acts of violence by Hefazat-e-Islam in Hathazari upazila.

The court of judicial magistrate Shahriar Iqbal passed the order when police sought a seven-day remand to interrogate him, said district court inspector Humayun Kabir, reports news agency UNB.

Earlier, police arrested Shahjahan Chowdhury from his residence at Samdar Para in Satkania municipality area of Chattogram.

Mohammad Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Satkania police station, said a team of police arrested the ex-MP as he was wanted in many cases filed on sabotage charges.

He was also the nayeb-e-amir of Chattogram city unit Jamaat-e-Islami and member of the Majlish-e-sura of central unit of Jamaat-e-Islami.

On 30 April, 2019, detective police arrested Shahjahan Chowdhury from a madrasah and he served jail term.