A court in Dhaka granted a seven-day remand to interrogate detained pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
Three alleged members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were also placed on different terms of remand in the same case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ahsan Habib granted the remand on Wednesday.
Sub-inspector Md Amirul Islam of Rapid Action Battalion-4, also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand for each.
The remanded accused are; pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Sabbir Ahmed alias Amam Sabbir, his mother Sultana Parvin, their close relative Asifur Rahman Asif and Md Alam, a tea stall owner.
Sultana Parvin was put on a five-day remand. Asifur Rahman Asif and Md Alam were placed on a six-day remand each.
Meanwhile, according to bdnews24.com on Wednesday, Biman authority has suspended its First Officer Amam.
Earlier, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested the four alleged JMB men from Mirpur area on Tuesday.
According to law enforcing agencies, they were planning acts of sabotage on an aircraft.
Sabbir is a first officer of the national flag carrier and son of Habibullah Bahar Azad, who was arrested after a drive at a militant den at Mirpur Mazar Road on September 7 last.
Azad is the owner of the six-storey building where the militant hideout was busted.
Earlier, the elite force recovered the skulls of seven people, including two women and two children, from the Mirpur militant hideout after the anti-militant operation.
Militant Abdullah, his two wives, two children and two associates blew themselves up detonating explosives in the multi-storey building of Azad in the city’s Darus Salam area.
RAB also recovered huge improvised explosive devices (IEDs) while searching the suspected hideout of militants.