A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Shahadat Farazi Sakib, a recently expelled member of Jatiya Nagorik Committee, to jail over the attack on a group of national minority students in front the National Curriculum and Textbook Board office in Motijheel on January 15.
Confirming the matter, Motijheel police station officer-in-charge Mesbah Uddin said that the police produced Shahadat Farazi before the court seeking remand for him.
鈥楾he court has sent him to jail and the hearing on the remand petition will be held later,鈥� the OC added.
Sakib, 35, was arrested during a raid in the capital鈥檚 Shyampur area at about 11:00pm on Wednesday, said a press release issued by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday.
He was a member of Jatiya Nagorik Committee鈥檚 Dhanmondi unit, listed as the sixth accused in a case filed over the attack that injured more than a dozen.
On January 17, the case was filed against 16 named persons and 200 to 300 unidentified persons for the attack.
The same day, Jatiya Nagorik Committee expelled its member Sakib over allegations of his involvement in the attack.
So far, four people, including Sakib, have been arrested in the case.
The other arrested are Arif Al Khabir, 38, Md Abbas, 24, and Habibur Rahman.
More than a dozen people, mostly students under the banner of Sangkhubdhho Adivasi Chhatra-Janata (aggrieved indigenous students-people), were injured in two attacks by the Students for Sovereignty, an organisation claimed to be of Dhaka University students, in front of the NCTB Bhaban in the capital on January 15 in the presence of police.
The national minority groups were protesting at the NCTB鈥檚 removal of a graffiti carrying the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� from the back cover of the Bangla grammar book for Classes of IX and X, following a demand from the Students for Sovereignty.
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