A leader of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has been placed on a five-day remand in former Bangladesh Power Development Board chairman Khijir Khan murder case.
A Dhaka court passed the order on Friday afternoon, a day after the detectives arrested the JMB leader, Abdul Gaffar, from the capital's Jatrabari area.
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Mahbub Alam, deputy commissioner of DB (East), told the Dhaka Tribune: “Gaffar's involvement in the murder was known from the confessional statements of the other detained suspects.
“Acting on their information, the members of Detective Branch of Police picked him up on Thursday afternoon.”
He was produced before the court on Friday afternoon with a 10-day remand plea, said the official. “Later, the court placed him on a five-day remand.”
Khijir – a former chairman of the Power Development Board (PDB), a freedom fighter, president of the Kushtia District Association, and a local religious preacher – was murdered at his house in Dhaka’s Middle Badda on October 5.
Assailants locked his family up in a room before slaughtering him in his khanqah sharif, a meeting place located in his house where he used to discuss religion with his followers.
Based on his son Ahmedullah's description of the killers, the investigators were trying to find out the involvement of JMB militants.
