Hefazat leader Mufti Sharifullah placed on one-day remand

The court on Wednesday granted police a day remand for Mufti Sharifullah, a central leader of Hefazat-e-Islam. He was arrested from capital’s Jatrabari on Tuesday.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Jatrabari police station Mazharul Islam told Prothom Alo on Wednesday evening that they sought a seven-day remand for interrogation after producing Sharifullah to the chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka. But the court granted one-day remand following the hearing.

Police arrested him from Mir Hazirbag area of Jatrabari on Tuesday in a case filed at Jatrabari police station over the mayhem of Shapla Chattor in capital city on 5 May in 2013.