A court in Chattogram has granted a two-day remand for top criminal Mobarak Hossain Emon, also known as David Emon, in a case filed over extortion and gunfire.
The court also approved an application to show him arrested in a separate case over an attack and looting at the office of internet service provider Digital Dot Net (DDN) in the city’s Chawkbazar area.
Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate (MM-3) Md Alamgir Hossain passed the orders today (12 November).
Mohammad Hasan Iqbal Chowdhury, deputy commissioner (prosecution) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), told TBS that police had sought a five-day remand in the case over gunfire in front of the residence of a director of Smart Group. The court granted two days.
He said investigators had also found David Emon’s alleged involvement in the attack and looting at DDN’s office, prompting police to seek an order showing him arrested in that case. The court approved the application.
David Emon is the son of late Md Musa of Kanchannagar in Fatikchhari. Police arrested him along with three others during a raid in the Jhumjhum area on 29 July.
Earlier, on 13 June, police identified his whereabouts while investigating the murder of Maksudul Haque Chowdhury in the Pahartali area.
Based on information provided by the arrested individuals, police raided an abandoned house in Manikpur area of Kanchannagar Union in Fatikchhari in the early hours of 30 July. Police said they recovered a foreign-made pistol, two locally made LG firearms and other locally made weapons from the house.
According to police, 13 cases, including those involving murder, firearms and extortion, have been filed against David Emon with different police stations in Chattogram city and district.
Police are also investigating allegations of his involvement in several other murders.
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