Mufti Abdul Hannan, operations commander of banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad (Huji), was placed on a five-day remand yesterday in connection with a case filed for bomb explosions at Ramna Batamul in 2001. Another Huji leader Abdur Rouf was also remanded for five days in the same case.Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Alam passed the order when CID Inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf, who is also the investigation officer (IO), produced them before the court under a tight security. Earlier, Hannan was remanded in the case and he made a confessional statement on November 19 last year. Ten people died and several others were injured on April 14, 2001 when bombs went off at Ramna Batamul during the Bengali New year's celebration.
On June 14, 2001, Maulana Akbar Hussain, one of the arrestees, made a confessional statement to a metropolitan magistrate disclosing involvements of Mufti Hannan and others with the blasts.