Hefazat leader Afendi sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Manjurul Islam Afendi, central assistant secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam’s recently dissolved committee, to jail in a sabotage case, reports BSS.

Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order as police produced Afendi before the court after the end of his five-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of the probe.

The court on 28 June, showed him arrested in the case filed with the capital's Paltan police station and placed him on five-day remand.

Hefazat-e-Islam carried out atrocities in capital’s Motijheel, Paltan and adjacent areas on 5 May, 2013, vandalising hundreds of vehicles, shops, offices, and setting those on fire.

Many cases were filed against the Hefazat leaders with Paltan and Motijheel police stations in this regard.