A Dhaka court placed Bangladeshi-origin United States citizen Enayet Karim Chowdhury on a fresh five-day remand over suspicious movements in the ministerial zone near Minto Road in the capital. The court also granted a five-day remand for Enayet’s associate SM Golam Mostafa Azad in the same case.
On Wednesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order after police produced the accused before the court, seeking a seven-day remand.
Earlier, on 15 September, a court granted a two-day remand for Enayet Karim Chowdhury. On 13 September, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi’s court had ordered Enayet to be sent to jail after he was arrested over suspicious movements in a car around Minto Road.
According to the case statement, Enayet Karim Chowdhury is engaged in attempts to overthrow the interim government of Bangladesh by acting as an agent of a foreign intelligence agency, aiming to undermine public safety and national sovereignty.
He was detained by police after his suspicious movements in the Minto Road area. Two iPhones were seized, in which information regarding conspiracies against the Bangladeshi government was found.
During interrogation, Enayet Karim reportedly admitted that he is a Bangladeshi-origin US citizen, who arrived in Dhaka from New York on 6 September.
He informed authorities that he is a contractual agent of a foreign intelligence agency and claimed that the interim government of Bangladesh is in a fragile state and has distanced itself from the army. He said he came here to work for the formation of a new national government or caretaker government.
