Extortion attempt at a Shyamoli hospital: 'Jubo Dal leader' Moin, 2 associates placed on 3-day remand
A Dhaka court has placed Moin Uddin, who claimed to be a Jubo Dal leader, and two of his suspected associates on a three-day remand in a case filed over allegations of extortion of Tk5 lakh at kidney specialist Professor Dr Kamrul Islam's Center for Kidney Diseases and Urology (CKD) hospital in the capital's Shyamoli area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jamsed Alam passed the order this afternoon (14 April) following a hearing.
The other accused sent on remand are MB Shwapan Kazi and Md Shawon Hossain.
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Earlier, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Sub-Inspector Md Sabbir Ahmed, the investigation officer of the case, produced the accused before the court and sought a seven-day remand.
According to the remand petition, evidence and information have been found linking the accused to the incident and the investigation is ongoing. It said that while in police custody, the accused have been giving inconsistent statements and are not confessing the actual events when questioned about the case and absconding unnamed accused.
The petition added that remand is necessary to uncover the mystery of the incident.
On 11 April, the case was filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station by Md Abu Hanif, operation theatre in-charge of the CKD hospital, naming Moin Uddin as the prime accused along with seven to eight unnamed individuals.
On 13 April, four associates of Moin, Md Falan Mia, Md Rubel, Faruk Hossain Sumon and Md Liton Mia, were arrested and sent to a four-day remand by the court.
On the same day, Moin Uddin was arrested from the Kalia Police Station area of Narail.
According to the case statement, Moin and his associates had long been demanding Tk5 lakh, and when the complainant failed to pay, they issued threats.
On the morning of 10 April, they allegedly went to the complainant's residence on Road 3 in Shyamoli under Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, demanded the money from his wife and threatened harm if it was not paid, behaving in an unruly manner when she refused.
The complaint further stated that the complainant, who was in another room at the time, called his younger brother Md Monir Talukdar, 35, who was at the hospital, to come home fearing escalation. When he arrived, Moin and seven to eight unnamed individuals allegedly attempted to present the situation differently and began gathering more people.
At one stage, they reportedly assembled around 50 to 60 people and went in front of the CKD hospital, attempting to create disorder. They allegedly engaged in unruly behaviour, chanted slogans loudly, used abusive language and tried to destabilise the situation.
They also allegedly chanted threatening slogans against the hospital owner Md Kamrul Islam and attempted to create chaos in front of the emergency department, raising concerns about disruption to normal hospital operations.
