A Dhaka court granted police a two-day remand for four individuals accused of extorting money from a private clinic in Mohammadpur. The accused are National Citizen Party leader Abdur Rahman Makin, former Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator Saiful Islam Rabbi, Habibur Rahman Farhad and Abu Sufian. Joint forces arrested them Sunday night after clinic owner Afroza Shilpi filed an extortion case.
The case states that one defendant's wife delivered a stillborn baby at the facility on Sept. 20. The accused allegedly demanded 300,000 taka to drop legal action and damaged clinic equipment two days later. Authorities said the suspects collected 120,000 taka initially and another 100,000 taka on Sunday while demanding additional payments. Police sought seven days of remand for each defendant but Magistrate Mehedi Hasan approved two days during Tuesday's hearing.
The case states that one defendant's wife delivered a stillborn baby at the facility on Sept. 20. The accused allegedly demanded 300,000 taka to drop legal action and damaged clinic equipment two days later. Authorities said the suspects collected 120,000 taka initially and another 100,000 taka on Sunday while demanding additional payments. Police sought seven days of remand for each defendant but Magistrate Mehedi Hasan approved two days during Tuesday's hearing.
