A Dhaka court on Monday ordered Chhatra Dal activist and Adnan murder accused Nafiz Mohammad Alam to be sent to jail in a case under the Narcotics Control Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam's court passed the order after hearing a bail petition filed by the defendant's lawyer.
The case's investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Shamim Hossain, requested to keep him in jail over the case with the Vatara police station.
On Sunday night, Nafiz, who was recently featured in a Deutsche Welle (DW) documentary, was arrested from his residence in Dhaka's Bashundhara.
He was arrested over the 2017 murder of Adnan Kabir, a ninth-grader, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Gulshan Division Assistant Commissioner Toyashir Babu said.
Vatara police arrested Nafiz as there was an arrest warrant against him, the officer added.
During the arrest, several bottles of foreign liquor and a motorcycle were seized from Nafiz's house.
Nafiz was recently interviewed by the German media company DW for a documentary on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
In November 2021, Nafiz was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion, and three cases were filed against him with the Vatara police station. In the DW documentary, Nafiz claimed that he was taken to the RAB-1 headquarters in 2021 and was tortured there.
In 2017, Nafiz was arrested in connection with the murder of Adnan Kabir, in Uttara.
On January 6 that year, local teenage gang Disco Boys attacked the members of another such group called Nine Star at Sector 3 in Uttara.
Adnan Kabir, a ninth grader and a Nine Star gang member, was injured in the attack and died after being hospitalized.
BNP slams govt for arresting Nafiz
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday castigated the government for arresting Chhatra Dal activist Nafiz.
He claimed that the arrest was a move to stop those who want to talk about the “unconstitutional” activities of RAB.
“The arrest of Nafiz Mohammad Alam has proved that RAB is involved in unconstitutional activities. They (the govt) are trying to silence the people who are talking (about it) here,” he said.
The BNP leader made the remarks while talking to reporters at Delta Care Hospital in the city's Rampura area, reports UNB.
Fakhrul went to the hospital to visit Natore Sadar upazila BNP General Secretary Abul Hossain, who was critically injured in Natore's Alaipur area by ruling party activists while observing BNP's sit-in program on Saturday.
The BNP leader said the government is responsible for the “unlawful” activities carried out by the RAB.
As a state institution, he said RAB is subservient to the government and force is working as per the government's instructions.
“They (govt) are using the RAB. So, the main responsibility falls on the government (for the force's activities). That is why we demanded the resignation of this government,” Fakhrul said.
He also demanded the formation of an impartial commission to investigate the wrongdoings by the RAB.
The BNP leader said the biggest weakness of the Awami League government is that it was not elected by the people.
He said the Awami League government has become completely isolated from the country's people. “They (govt) are not accountable to the people. That is why they want to hang onto power by resorting to terrorism, ‘false' cases and using the state machinery to foil the opposition's democratic program.”
