UNB from Chittagong reports: A Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday granted five days' fresh remand to eight suspected militants for further interrogation as intelligent agencies found their links to the October 3 bomb blasts at Chittagong courts. Metropolitan Magistrate Akram Hossain granted the remand on a prayer from Detective Branch (DB) of police who told the court that the eight were involved in carrying explosives and supplying money to execute the blasts in two courts. Those who were taken on remand are: Haji Abul Kalam, Abu Taher, Mohammad Ishaq, Osman, Nurul Islam, Ashraful Alam, Noor Mohammand and Saiful Islam.
Police on Friday arrested 25 suspected militants from Aziz Chamber in the port city. Of the suspects, 17 were sent to jail and the others remanded. The investigators said the eight suspects, traders by profession, had been maintaining links with the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) for a long time. |