Ex-MP Nayeb Ali placed on 4-day remand

A Jhenaidah court has placed Nayeb Ali Joarder, former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-1 constituency (Shailkupa), on a four-day remand in two separate cases.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Rumana Afroze placed him on remand after Joarder was produced before the court at 9:30am on Friday.

Jhenaidah Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Shaheen Uddin said: “We prayed for a 10-day remand for former MP Nayeb Ali Joarder. The court granted us a four-day remand in two cases, but he will be interrogated for four days concurrently, not separately.”

Nayeb Ali Joarder was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday midnight from Arappur Bus Stand area in Jhenaidah.

Major Nayeem Ahmed, commander of RAB-6 in Jhenaidah, said two cases of sabotage were filed on August 19 and August 24 in connection with the arson attacks on the district BNP office and the residence of the party’s president. Nayeb Ali Joarder was listed as the prime accused in both cases.

Acting on a tip-off that Joarder was staying at his residence in the Arappur Jamtala area, members of RAB and the army conducted a raid and arrested him late Thursday night. He was later handed over to Sadar police station.

This arrest follows a wave of detentions of former ministers, MPs, and advisors after Sheikh Hasina resigned on August 5 amid an uprising led by students and civilians.