A senior judicial magistrate court in Bandarban on Wednesday rejected prayers of three Bawm women, arrested in joint drives in April and May this year suspecting them to be members of Kuki-Chin National Front, seeking bail.
The court of Senior Judicial Magistrate ASM Emran rejected their bail prayers, said Ubathoai Marma, a lawyer representing the detained women.
The lawyer declined to mention the identities of the women who were arrested during the joint drive and shown arrested in four cases.
‘They have been languishing in jail since their arrest,’ he said.
Between April 2 night and April 3, members of armed groups carried out separate attacks targeting banks and security facilities in remote hilly areas of bordering Bandarban district, looting at least 12 firearms, 400 bullets, Tk 17 lakh in cash, and abducting a bank manager, district administration and law enforcement agencies members had claimed.
On April 29, the Human Rights Forum Bangladesh in a statement said that, apart from the KNF and those linked to them, allegations surfaced over mass arrest and harassment of people from the Bawm and other communities.
It read that some 111 people, including four children, were arrested or detained between April 7 and April 22.