A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered Harkatul Jihad founder Sheikh Abdus Salam to be remanded for interrogation for eight days in connection with a terrorism case.

Dhaka additional chief metropolitam magistrate Abu Zafar Md Qamruzzaman granted the remand prayer at 12 noon.

Md Abdul Haque, a police officer at the court, said this to bdnews24.com, adding that Motijheel police had petitioned for putting the Huji leader on a 10-day remand for quizzing.

An Afghan war veteran, remanded Salam is the chief of Islamic Democratic Party, and was arrested on November 1, 2009.

The criminal investigation department (CID) of police took him on remand for interrogation for a number of times in connection with the August 21 grenade attack and CPB rally bomb attack cases.

There were allegations against Salam that following the August 21 grenade attack, he had helped former state minister Abdus Salam Pintu's brother Maulana Tajuddin to flee the country.

Source: bdnews24.com

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