A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Adilur Rahman, secretary of the rights group Odhikar, on a five-day remand.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate, Amit Kumar Dey passed the order rejecting the bail petition filed by Adilur’s lawyer Mohammad Ali, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police Ashraful Islam, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Adilur before the court seeking 10 days’ remand.
After hearing the DB, the court ordered five days’ remand in the case filed under the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Act 2006.
The court also granted permission to the DB to search Adilur’s residence and office for documents.
On Saturday night, plainclothes policemen arrested Adilur Rahman Khan from near his Gulshan resi-dence.
Adilur was with his family when he was arrested without a warrant by eight to ten law enforcers wear-ing civilian clothes. In a statement, the director of Odhikar, ASM Nasiruddin Elan alleged that they had tried to lodge a general diary with the Gulshan police station but the Officer-in-Charge refused to file it.
Meanwhile, members of the Detective Branch of the DMP conducted a drive at Odhikar office for more than an hour starting from 8:45pm. They examined the computers, contents of communications and other documents at the office in Gulshan.
