The acting Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman was on Saturday remanded in police custody for three days for interrogation in one of the cases filed against him in February.
‘We have taken him in our custody for three days for interrogation beginning today,’ the Ramna police officer-in-charge, Moshiur Rahman, told New Age on Saturday.Mahmudur would be interrogated in the case filed in connection with a violence that took place near Matsya Bhahan in the capital on February 22 after an ‘instigating’ article had been published in Amar Desh.
Mahmudur, who has been at the Kashimpur jail in Gazipur for a few days after his arrest in April, was taken from the jail for the interrogation, officials said.
A metropolitan magistrate allowed him to be remanded in police custody for three days on June 12 but the interrogation was pending considering his health condition, the police said.
On April 11, the editor was remanded in police custody for 13 days for interrogation in three cases, including a sedition case, hours after his arrest at his office at Karwan Bazar in the capital.
Mahmudur, also a former energy adviser to the BNP-led alliance government, was arrested on June 1, 2010 in another case.
-With New Age input
