Police want 10-day remand for Mahmudur Rahman

Police want to interrogate the Daily Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman in custody over the case filed for alleged attempts to abduct and murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

Mahmudur Rahman will be shown arrested in the case and he will be produced before the Dhaka court on Monday with a 10-day remand prayer, according to Detectives Branch (DB) of police.

Mahmudur Rahman's link has been got to the plot to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed, said a responsible official of DB.

The DB official also said the name of a Chittagong-based businessman, who now lives in the US, has also come up in their investigation.

In the same case, senior journalist and a pro-BNP intellectual Shafik Rehman is on a five-day remand following his arrest from his house in the capital on Saturday morning.