A Dhaka court on Saturday placed two arrestees including the key coordinator and the wife of an escaped militant on 5-day remand in a case file over snatching away two militants from the premises of a Dhaka court last year.
According to Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, the remanded Shikha is the wife of fugitive militant Abu Siddiq Sohel and the mastermind behind the snatching.
Another accused who was remanded is Husna Akhtar who sheltered Shikha.
CTTC Inspector Muhammad Abul Kalam Azad, also investigation officer of the case, produced the duo before the court on Saturday with a 10-day remand prayer.
Later, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court judge Mohammad Sheikh Sadi granted five days remand.
A CTTC team in a raid arrested Sikha and Husna Akhter from Signboard area of Narayanganj on Friday night.
Death-row convicts Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, members of banned militant outfit Ansar-al Islam, were whisked away by their associates by beating police and spraying some chemical on their eyes at Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court arena on November 20, 2022.
Court inspector Md Julhash later filed the case with Kotwali police station.
They were convicted in the murder of publisher Foisal Arefin Dipon.
Dipon was brutally hacked to death at the Jagriti Prokashony office on the second floor of Aziz Super Market in Shahbagh on October 31, 2015.
A murder case was filed at Shahbagh police station two days later against unidentified assailants.