A Dhaka court yesterday placed Jubo Dal President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal on a three-day remand in a case lodged over the recent clash in Bakshibazar.
But he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 7:30pm as he suddenly fell ill while being interrogated.
Alal’s personal secretary Jahangir Hossain said the Jubo Dal leader was trembling when police were quizzing him.
Police later took him to the hospital, he said.
Earlier in the day, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the remand order after Mohammad Ilias, officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar police station and also the investigating officer in the case, produced Alal before the court with a 10-day remand request.
According to the plea, Alal needed to be in custody in order to know the motive of the attack on police, Ilias said
But Alal told the court he was not present at the scene. He said he had been released from prison ten days ago in another case and the High Court ordered his release.
Alal also pleaded for bail, saying that he was a hypertension patient and had also been diagnosed with cardiovascular problems.
Alal’s counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed a bail petition which was rejected by court. The Jubo Dal chief was detained at his Lalmatia residence in the capital around 11:15pm on Saturday.
On December 24, Md Delower Hossain, sub-inspector of Chawkbazar police station, lodged a case against a total of 76 BNP activists in connection with the clash in Bakshibazar on December 24.
A fierce clash had broken out between the BNP and Chhatra League activists outside the Bakshibazar makeshift court just before BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was about to appear before it in two graft cases.