Staff Reporter
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman, a former lawmaker and leader of Bangladesh
Jamaat-e-Islami, in a case filed over creating disorder and misbehaving with the officials at Hazrat
Shahjalal International Airport.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jamshed Alam passed the order after rejecting his bail petition when
he was produced before the court after completing of his one-day remand.
Earlier, the investigating officer of the case and also the Sub-inspector of Airport Police Station Majedul
Islam filed a petition seeking an order to keep Akhtaruzzaman inside jail until the end of the
investigation.
Akhtaruzzaman’s lawyer filed a petition seeking his bail.
On Friday, detectives in a drive arrested the Jamaat leader from his Cantonment residence.
Later, he was shown arrested the case.
A Dhaka court on Saturday put him on one-day remand.
According to the FIR, the incident occurred Thursday morning when passengers arriving from Madina on
Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-338 faced a shortage of trolleys and delays in collecting baggage.
Airport Executive Director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad went to the spot to control the situation.
Akhtaruzzaman allegedly verbally abused and threatened him and later assaulted Security Supervisor
Warrant Officer Mohammad Kamal Uddin after the latter asked his protocol assistants to stop recording
videos in the restricted KPI area.
Akhtaruzzaman threw bottles of Zamzam water from passengers' trolleys and behaved aggressively
toward a Biman representative, according to the FIR.
Police said they will examine CCTV footage, record eyewitness statements and collect other evidence
before taking further legal action.
