A court in Chattogram granted 10 days’ remand to alleged top criminal Mobarak Hossain Iman, also known as David Iman, and four others in two separate cases under murder and arms laws filed at Fatikchhari police station. Chattogram Judicial Magistrate Mutasim Billah issued the order on the afternoon of August 2. Iman, 25, is from Kanchannagar in Fatikchhari upazila.

Additional Superintendent of Police Kazi Md Tarek Aziz of Hathazari Circle said police had sought seven days’ remand in each case, for a total of 14 days, against Iman. He and four others were arrested on July 29 from the Jhumjhumpur area under Kotwali police station in Jashore.

Chattogram district police said Iman’s location was identified through information obtained during the investigation into the June 13 killing of Maksudul Haque Chowdhury in the Pahartali area and subsequent intelligence operations. Acting on information from arrested accused, police recovered a foreign pistol, two locally made LG firearms and other local weapons from an abandoned house in Manikpur, Kanchannagar Union, on July 30. Police say Iman faces 13 cases, including murder, arms and extortion allegations.