BNP leader Aslam put on 5-day fresh remand

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury on a five-day fresh remand in a sedition case filed with Gulshan police station.

Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan passed the order when DB inspector Fazlur Rahman produced him before the court on completion of his seven-day remand, seeking a 7-day fresh remand.

The court also rejected a bail petition filed by Aslam’s counsel Sanaullah Mia.

On 31 May, a court placed Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand in the case.

On 26 May, DB inspector Golam Rabbani filed a sedition case against Aslam Chowdhury.

Plainclothes police arrested Aslam from the city on 15 May for his alleged involvement in an anti-state plot.

Several local newspapers published reports attaching more than one photographs of the BNP leader’s meeting with Israeli influential leader Mendi N Safadi.

But Aslam denied any conspiracy against the government although he admitted to meeting Safadi in a tea party in India.