Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered interrogation of a Bangladesh-origin US citizen in police custody for his alleged attempt to overthrow the interim government.
Police and court officials said Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman granted the two-day re-mand for Enayet Karim Chowdhury against a police petition seeking him to be in their custody for 10 days for interrogation in a case under Anti-Terrorism Act.
According to police they detained Chowdhury on Saturday when he was seen moving suspiciously in a posh car at Mantripara area on Mintoo Road, the residential area of govt’s advisers.
They produced him before metropolitan magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi on the next day on the basis of a general diary (GD) and she sent him in jail.
Police, meanwhile, filed the case under the terrorism law and produced Chowdhury before Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman’s court on Monday and secured the two-day police remand for him.
Chowdhury’s lawyer applied for his bail ignoring the police prayer but the magistrate rejected his bail prayer.
Police said Karim Chowdhury arrived in Dhaka on September 6 from New York by a Qatar Airways flight and alleged that he came to Bangladesh to work for a new government or caretaker government ‘overthrowing’ the existing interim government.
According to police their preliminary interrogation Chowdhury revealed that by now he held “secret meetings” with several high-ranking or policy making government officials, influential political business leaders.
Police said Chowdhury told that the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division would reestablish the caretaker government system binning a previous apex court verdict on October 21 and after that an army-supported new national government or caretaker government would be formed.
