Hefazat leader Sharifullah placed on remand

Dhaka, April 14: A court has granted a one-day remand to Mufti Sharifullah, co-publicity secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam's central committee, in a 2013 murder case in the capital's Jatrabari police station area. Police produced him in the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Wednesday (April 14th). Jatrabari Police Station Inspector Ayan Mahmud requested to remand him for seven days for proper investigation into the Special Powers Act case. At the end of the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Saeed granted him a one-day remand.