CHITTAGONG: A district court on Tuesday (March 14) placed 17 detained extremists on a two-day remand each. 

Metropolitan Magistrate Harunur Rashid passed the order in response to a seven-day remand plea by Double Mooring thana police.

Recently Double Mooring police detained three extremist members from a secret meeting. On their information, police then conducted drives and detained 14 others.

Double Mooring police station officer-in-charge (OC) AKM Mohiuddin Selim said the detainees are members of banned extremist outfit Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and black listed Hizb-ut-Tawhid, Ahle Hadith. 

They were put on remand in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act, the OC added.

BDST: 1823 HRS, MAR 14, 2017
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