A Dhaka court yesterday placed Maulana Abu Bakar Siddique, a death-row convict in Ramna Batamul carnage case, on a 5-day remand in a case filed under the explosive substance act.
Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Erfanullah passed the order when CID inspector Ashraf Ali produced him before the court seeking a 10-day remand for interrogation.
According to the case statement, Sub-inspector Abdur Razzak filed the case with Chakbazar police station on August 22, 2004 in connection with the recovery of an unexploded cocktail from near the Dhaka central jail.
Earlier on November 6, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the fugitive death-row convict in Ramna Batamul killing case, about 13 years after the incident which claimed 10 lives.
Abu Bakar was arrested from Keraniganj area. He is a top leader of the banned Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) and also an accused in the August 21 grenade attack case.
Abu Bakar was a close associate of HuJI Chief Mufti Hannan. He had been hiding in different parts of the country for the last 13 years.
On June 23, this year, Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ruhul Amin gave death sentence to eight persons, including Abu Bakar and life imprisonment to six others for killing 10 celebrants of Pahela Baishakh at a Chhayanaut event at the foot of a banyan tree in Ramna Park on April 14, 2001.
