A Dhaka court has placed each of the three suspects in murders of two secular bloggers on a seven-day remand.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order Wednesday in reply to a ten-day remand plea from DB Inspector Md Fazlur Rahman.
Law enforcers on Tuesday arrested a suspected mastermind behind the murders of two secular bloggers, as well as detaining two of his cohorts – all of them active members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team.
Touhidur Rahman, 58, who is being accused of masterminding the killings of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, is a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin.
Read more: Blogger killers' mastermind arrested
The rest two are T28-year-old Sadek Ali Mithhu, who RAB accuses of being involved in murdering both bloggers; and 35-year-old Aminul Mollik, who reportedly helps members of the outfit flee the country by making them fake passports.
With Ansarullah chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani behind bars since 2013, IT-expert Touhidur had been handling the finances of the militant group along with masterminding all the killings committed by its members.
