A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Publicity Affairs Secretary Adv Motiur Rahman Akand to be sent to jail in a case lodged over alleged subversive activities.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim passed the order as police produced Akand before the court and pleaded to keep him behind bars till the end of the investigation in the case filed at Uttara West police station.
Akand was detained at his Uttara Sector 14 home at around 11am and produced before the court at noon.
According to the case documents, Jamaat leaders and activists on October 11, 2022 blockaded the road in front of BNS Tower in Uttara Sector 7, demanding the release of seven of their men. As the police tried to clear the road, Jamaat men blasted two crude bombs and hurled brickbats, injuring a couple of policemen.
Later, police fired two shotgun rounds, dispersing the mob in the area. The police after that filed the case at Uttara West police station.