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Huji operative Mithu placed on remand

SYLHET: The judicial magistrate court in Habiganj yesterday granted seven days' remand for Huji operative Shah Mizanur Rahman Mithu, an accused in former finance minister SAMS Kibria killing case.

Judicial Magistrate Shamsul Islam granted the remand prayer after CID's ASP Rafiqul Islam, also the investigation officer of the case, prayed for ten days' remand on Tuesday.

Rafiqul told The Daily Star, “Mithu might be taken out of the Habiganj jail any time today for quizzing.”

Rab officials caught Mithu on Sunday midnight from one of his relative's house in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj district. On the following day, they handed him over to the Habiganj police and CID quizzed him preliminarily on that night.During the questioning, the Huji operative admitted his involvement in the grenade attack.

ASP Rafiqul submitted the remand petition while the Habiganj police produced Mithu before the court on Tuesday. The IO in his petition said, Mizanur Rahman Mithu had admitted his complicity in the sensational killing. 

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