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| Ansarullah leader Mufti Rahmani remanded |
| 2013-09-05 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Mufti Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani, a leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team, on a two-day remand in a case filed over an attempt to kill blogger Asif Muhiuddin in January this year. Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Nibaron Chandra Burman, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Rahmani before it with a 10-day remand prayer. Rahmani's name was not included in the First Information Report (FIR), but he was shown tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in the case on August 13. In the night of January 13, myrmidons attacked Asif with knives in Uttara of the capital, leaving him seriously injured. He underwent treatment at a hospital for a month. Rahmani, 43, was also shown arrested in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar killing case on August 15. Earlier on August 11, police arrested him with 30 other alleged forces of Evil when the group was holding a "secret meeting" at a house in Barguna town. |
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