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'Plot to kill Joy'

Shafik Rehman faces arrest

Wednesday, 7 March 2018



A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of four people, including journalist Shafik Rehman, in a case filed for plotting to 'abduct and kill' Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son and her ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy, reports UNB.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharafuzzaman Ansari passed the order after accepting the chargesheet in the case.
The three others who faced the arrest warrant are vice-president of BNP's cultural wing Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizve Ahmed Caesar and Bangladeshi expatriate trader living in the United States Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan.