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Shafik Rehman on 5-day remand

Senior journalist and presenter Shafik Rehman has been placed on a five-day remand in Sajeeb Wazed Joy kidnapping case on Saturday noon.Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka Md Mazharul Islam passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) Assistant Commissioner Hasan Arafat produced him before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.Around 8am on Saturday, detectives picked up Rehman from his Eskaton residence and took him to the Detective Branch headquarters on Minto Road.BNP condemned Rehman’s detention and demanded his immediate release.