DHAKA, April 27, 2021 (BSS) – A court here today placed Mufti Nuruzzaman Numani on two-day remand in a case lodged over the mayhem of Hefajat-e-Islam in the capital in 2013.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place him on 10-day remand to interrogate Numani further to learn more about his role in the Hefajat atrocities.
Hefajat-e-Islam laid seize on capital’s Shapla Chattar area on May 5, 2013, unleashing inexpressible atrocities in and around the capital.
They vandalized hundreds of vehicles, shops and offices, setting many of those on fire. They even cut down hundreds of trees grown on the road dividers and used those as barricades to obstruct the law enforcing agencies.