Papia on 15-day remand

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader of Narsingdi district unit Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon were placed on 15-day remand each in three cases lodged against them.

Their personal aides Sabbir Khondokar, 29, and Sheikh Taiba Nur, 22, were also placed on five-day remand each in a case lodged under The Special Powers Act, 1974, with Airport Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur Rahman granted five-day remand for the couple.  

On the other hand, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim placed the Papia and Sumon on 10-day remand in total in two arms and narcotics cases lodged under Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 arrested Papia and the three others from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on February 22. 

The elite crime busting agency members recovered seven passports, Taka 2, 12,270, fake note of Taka 25,600, USD 11,481, Sri Lankan 420 rupee, Indian 310 rupee and two debit cards from their possessions.

RAB later raided Papia’s Farmgate flats and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign-made liquor, Taka 58, 41,000 cash, credit and debit cards of different banks from there.