Shahid on five-day remand

Police have been granted five days to interrogate Md Saidur Rahman Shahid alias Shahid Commissioner in a case of illegal possession of firearms. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Abdus Salam gave the order on a police petition seeking to remand Shahid, a listed criminal. RAB had on Tuesday arrested him with three pistols, a revolver and 62 rounds of ammunition during a raid on his house in Dhaka’s Gendariya area. Of the four firearms, only the revolver was found as a valid possession.
The elite force later in the day handed over the listed criminal to Gendariya Police Station, filing a case of illegal possession of weapons. On Jan 2, three days before the national election, police had arrested Shahid's accomplice Hafizur Rahman from the same house with a revolver, a pistol and a shotgun. Shahid, however, was not arrested at that time, though he was at home during the raid. Sutrapur Police Station OC Khalilur Rahman had told the media that Shahid was implicated in several cases. After ten years in prison, the High Court acquitted Shahid in the Advocate Habibur Rahman Mandal murder case about five years ago, after he was sentenced to death by a lower court. Some other murder charges against him are currently pending with the High Court. Shahid came out in public recently after lying low for quite some time, before contesting the Jan 5 polls which he lost, accordig to a news agency.