Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday allowed police to take one youth Sujon, detained while trying to enter the hospital cabin of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia at a hospital in the capital, in custody for two days for interrogation.
Metropolitan Magistrate Farah Diba Chanda passed the order when Vatara police produced Sujon before the court and prayed for a five-day remand.
Earlier, the youth aged about 34was held when he attempted to enter Khaleda Zia’s cabin of Khaleda Zia, who is undergoing treatment in the capital’s Evercare Hospital.
The hospital authorities detained Sujon on Saturday afternoon and handed him over to the Bhatara police. He was later shown arrested under section 54.
In this regard, Bhatara police station officer-in-charge Mainul Islam told the media on Sunday that the youth was shown arrested under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and produced before Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court seeking a five-day remand.
Once the court grants the remand, the youth will be quizzed on why he came to Evercare Hospital and why he tried to enter Khaleda Zia’s cabin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Badda zone assistant commissioner Rajon Kumar Saha said that Sujon, during primary interrogation, on Saturday night had claimed that he was involved in the politics of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal a few years ago.
He, referring to Sujon’s claim to police, had said that the youth went to Basundhara Residential Area for the purpose of a job and went to see Khaleda Zia as she was undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Earlier in the day, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a statement that the attempt of an unknown and suspected youth to enter the cabin of Khaleda Zia, who is receiving treatment at the capital’s Evercare Hospital a little before Saturday evening is very worrying.