BSS
  15 Dec 2024, 17:54

Four members of banned BCL remanded

DHAKA, Dec 15, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today placed four members of banned 
organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on a two-day remand each in an 
anti-terrorism act case filed with the capital's Kalabagan Police Station.

The four remanded accused are former president of BCL's Dhaka University 
Shamsunnahar Hall unit Nishita Iqbal Nodi, former joint general secretary of 
Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall Al Fatara Kazol, former BCL activists Shovon 
Rahman and Hasan Imam Shovon.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police 
produced the four before the court and pleaded to place them on a seven-day 
remand each.

According to the case documents, leaders and activists of the banned BCL 
brought out a sudden procession in the capital's Kalabagan area around 6am on 
December 13. 

They chanted different anti-government slogans at the time. Police said the 
arrested were plotting to embarrass the government through different illegal 
activities. 

Detective branch of police on the night of December 14 arrested the four from 
the capital's Bashundhara Residential Area.