A Bandarban court on Thursday remanded 52 suspected members and sympathisers of the armed national minority group Kuki-Chin National Front in police custody for interrogation for two days.
Judicial magistrate Nazmul Hussain passed the order after a remand hearing in the case filed for the abduction of Sonali Bank manager Nezam Uddin from a mosque at Ruma on April 2 in an attempt to loot the bank vault.
The court also allowed the investigators to interrogate a pregnant female suspect at jail gate.
The Bandarban court police inspector, AK Fazlul Haque, said that four of them were remanded in a case filed by the imam of the mosque from where Sonali Bank manager Nezam Uddin was abducted on April 2, while 48 others were remanded in another case filed in connection with the abduction.
Nezam Uddin was rescued on April 4 through a negotiation by the Rapid Action Battalion.聽
On April 2, the KNF tried to loot Tk 1.5 crore from the vault of Sonali Bank鈥檚 Ruma upazila branch. In failure, they kidnapped the branch manager, Nezam Uddin, who was rescued two days later.
They also carried out robberies at Sonali Bank and Krishi Bank branches in Thanchi upazila of Bandarban on April 3.
They looted at least 14 firearms, over 400 bullets, and Tk 17 lakh in cash during the attacks in Ruma and Thanchi.
The security forces have so far arrested 58 people in their joint operation in connection with the incidents.
The police have separately arrested 14 others.
Police officials in Bandarban said that a total of nine cases were filed with Ruma and Thanchi police stations following the incidents of robberies, arms looting, and abduction between April 2 and 3.