DHAKA, April 8, 2023 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today granted a five-day remand to 
Jamaat-e-Islami's Dhaka Metropolitan North Ameer Muhammad Selim Uddin, who 
was arrested from a secret meeting along seven others in Bashundhara 
Residential area of the capital on Friday evening.

The other seven accused in the case-- Jamaat-e Islami Mahanagar Majlish 
member Abul Bashar, former General Secretary of Cumilla District Chhatra 
Shibir Mohammad Yusuf and Jamaat-e-Islami activists Anwarul Haque, Shabbir 
Ahmed, Engineer Mohammad Sirajul Islam and Abdul Hakim Sarkar-- were granted 
two-day remand each.

As they were produced before the court this morning, the Investigating 
Officer (IO) of the case DB Police Inspector Sameer Chandra Sutradhar applied 
for a 10-day remand of Selim and different period remands for the rest. 

However, the lawyers of the accused pleaded the court to cancel the remand 
and grant them bail.

After hearing both the parties, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh 
Sadi scrapped bail plea and granted them remand for different terms.

Earlier on Friday, Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists gathered in a 
'secret meeting' inside a building in block- D, road no- 29 in the city's 
Bashundhara Residential Area.

According to the case, they gathered at the confidential meet with the aim to 
spread terror activities among the public, overthrowing the government by 
conspiracy, sabotaging government buildings and vehicles and creating menace. 

A case was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at Bhatara Police Station in 
the capital on Friday night.