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Aslam on 7-day remand

BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury has been placed on a seven-day remand over alleged plot with Israel to topple Bangladesh government.Metropolitan Magistrate Sarafuzzaman Ansari on Monday passed the order after Gulam Robbani, inspector of Detective Branch of Police, produced him before his court with a 10-day remand prayer.Law enforcers detained Aslam under section 54; they had documents against him regarding anti-state activities.Police on Sunday evening detained Aslam from Kuril area of the capital over his meeting with Israeli secret services Mossad.Chittagong-based businessman Aslam came under the severe criticism both in and outside the party after several photographs went viral in social media showing him with Mendi N Safadi, a leader of Israel’s Likud Party and chief of International Diplomacy and Public Relations.