Police have applied for 24 days’ remand of Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque in three separate cases against him.
Sonargaon police and Narayanganj Detective Branch (DB) of police made the pleas, confirmed Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Jayedul Alam on Sunday.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Humayun Kabir's court has fixed May 9 for the remand hearings.
SP Jayedul said 24 days’ custody of Mamunul had been sought in three separate cases filed with Sonargaon police station.
A request for a 10-day remand had been made in the rape case file by Mamunul’s “so-called” second wife and a seven-day remand in the case filed over the vandalism of Sonargaon upazila Awami League office, the police official said.
Meanwhile, the DB sought seven days’ custody in the case filed over the violence perpetrated in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila, he added.
Mamunul Haque, joint secretary general of the recently dissolved committee of Hefazat-e-Islam, was arrested from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on April 18.
The controversial Hefazat leader has been under the spotlight since April 3 when he had been surrounded by locals and ruling party supporters with a woman, whom he had identified as his second wife, at Royal Resort in Sonargaon.
Local administration officials and police had gone to the resort upon hearing about the incident and sat with Mamunul to learn about the incident.
Later, a group of Hefazat supporters ran riot in the area, over which a total of seven cases had been filed. Around 50 Hefazat leaders and activists have been arrested in the seven cases so far.
