By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka
A court in Dhaka yesterday sent Nazmul Maksud Murad, an accused in a case filed for attempting to kill then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was sent to jail yesterday, a day after he was brought back home from the USA through the Interpol.
After Murad was produced before the court of Fourth Additional Metropolitan Magistrate AHM Habibur Rahman, he passed the order to send him to jail after showing him as being detained in two cases. First additional sessions judge Zakia Parveen also ordered that Murad be arrested and jailed for complicity in another case.
Murad along with several accomplices opened fire and hurled bombs and grenades at Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi House on August 11, 1989.
A case was filed with Dhanmondi Police Station in this connection on February 20, 1997 against 16 people, including Murad.
Murad had fled to the US on October 3, 1996 and he sought political asylum there as an activist of Freedom Party, founded by self-confessed killers of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 2011, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) issued a notice to the US through the Interpol. Later, American Homeland Security arrested Murad on February 2, 2012.
An American Homeland Security official handed him over to the Bangladesh CID on Wednesday.
Murad is also a fugitive accused in two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station in Dhaka.
