The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Six youths of wealthy families who were arrested along with banned drug Yaba from the city's posh Gulshan and Banani areas were placed on a three-day remand by a court yesterday.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman placed them under three-day remand for interrogation after the Gulshan police pleaded to grant seven-day remand.

A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested these six youths along with Yaba tablets and porno CDs from the Gulshan and Banani areas after Wednesday midnight keeping a vigilance on them for a week.

Later, RAB and a young woman filed two separate cases against them with the Gulshan police station. On Friday, they were produced before a court by police. Police pleaded to the court to place them under a seven-day remand. However, instead of placing them under remand, the court ordered to send them to jail.

They were brought to court again yesterday and police pleaded to the court to place them under a seven-day remand. The court placed them on three-day remand.

Meanwhile, three notorious terrorists-Taj, Sohel and Lambu Selim who were brought back from India were taken to a five-day remand by Paltan police yesterday.

Judge Hasan Sarwar of the Court No. 13 of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Dhaka placed them on a five-day remand after the Paltan police station sub-inspector Azizul Huq pleaded to the court to place them on a ten-day remand.