A Chittagong court yesterday sent 21 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, including its Chittagong city unit Ameer ANM Shamsul Islam, to jail in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act.
Police sought a seven-day remand for the arrestees. The court, however, fixed May 18 for hearing on the remand prayer, police sources said.
Metropolitan Magistrate Rahmat Ali passed the order yesterday.
The Kotwali police arrested the 21 Jamaat leaders from their city office at Dewanbazar when they were allegedly holding a secret meeting on Monday to plan fresh agitations ahead of the verdict of Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
Mohammad Ahsanullah, nayeb-e-ameer of the city unit of Jamaat, said they would enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal in greater Chittagong today, but the ongoing HSC examination would be out of its purview.
Meanwhile, Kotwali police arrested three people from the dormitories of Government Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College and Chittagong Government College, while Bakalia police also arrested a Shibir leader, Nazmul Islam, from Surovi Residential area yesterday.
