Two Chhatra League leaders remanded over Gulshan crud bomb blast

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed two leaders of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League on a five-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act with Gulshan Police Station in the capital.

The accused are Falgooni Das Tonni, former deputy literature affairs secretary of the central committee of Chhatra League, and Sajedur Rahman Sohan, joint general secretary of the organisation’s Tungipara upazila unit.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Joshita Islam passed the order after a hearing, according to a prosecution division source.

Earlier, Sub-Inspector Md Ruhul Amin, the investigation officer of the case, sought a seven-day remand for the accused after producing them before the court.

Police arrested Tonni at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on 22 October, while Sohan was arrested in Mirpur on 24 October.

The remand petition said the accused needed to be interrogated to determine the whereabouts of other accused, identify the financiers and planners, and arrest them.

According to the case documents, leaders and activists of the banned Chhatra League and the activities-banned Awami League brought out a procession in front of a KFC restaurant on Road 3 in Gulshan-1 on 11 September.

They allegedly exploded crude bombs and chanted anti-state slogans, creating panic in the area in an attempt to destabilise the elected government.

A case was filed over the incident with Gulshan Police Station on the same day, naming 118 accused and 80 to 100 unidentified people. The investigation is underway in the case.