A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Hefajat-e-Islam Dhaka city unit vice-president Mawlana Korban Ali on seven-day remand in a case lodged over the mayhem in capital’s Paltan area in 2013.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order.
Earlier police produced Korban, also a joint secretary general of Bangladesh KhelafatMajlish, before the court and pleaded to place him on 10-day remand.
Police arrested Korban Ali from capital’s Basabo area at around 5.30 pm on April 20.
On May 5, 2013, thousands of members of Hefajat, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist organisation, went berserk and unleashed vandalism, turning Motijheel and Paltan areas into battlefields.
A total of 83 cases were filed in seven districts, including in Dhaka, accusing 3,416 named and 84,796 unnamed people.
Police have pressed charges in 18 cases and submitted final reports in two other cases. Investigations of 62 other cases have been stalled.
