Six placed on three-day remand in Gendaria arms case

A Dhaka court on Monday placed six accused on a three-day remand each in a case filed over the recovery of firearms in the capital’s Gendaria area.

The accused are Md Sajib, 28, Md Himu, 32, Md Tushar, 25, Md Joy, 25, Md Tutul, 33, and Md Imran, 33.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifur Rahman passed the order, said Gendaria Police Station Sub-Inspector Md Rezaul Karim, also the investigating officer (IO) of the case. 

Earlier in the day, the IO produced the accused before the court and sought 10 days’ remand for each of them.  

According to the remand petition, acting on a tip-off about drugs, police searched a microbus carrying five people, including the driver. The microbus arrived from Cox’s Bazar on 23 August.

During interrogation, they admitted that illegal drugs were kept at a house in the capital’s Koratitola area of Gendaria.

Police later recovered pistols, magazines and several rounds of ammunition from the house, following information provided by the accused.

Among the recovered firearms were a Taurus 9mm pistol made in Brazil and two pistols marked “Made in USA”, police said. 

A case was subsequently filed with Gendaria Police Station under the Arms Act.

Police claimed that the accused were involved in possessing the firearms and ammunition without valid licences.

Police sought remand to determine the source of the weapons, identify others involved in the incident and ascertain the purpose for which the firearms were kept.