Three coordinators taken into custody to know who want to attack them: Home minister

Three coordinators of the Students Against Discrimination Movement have been taken into custody to determine who want to attack them, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday.

“One of the detained coordinators phoned his father and said, ‘I am going into hiding. Don’t tell anyone about where I am’. When we found this news on social media, we took them into safe custody,” Mr Asaduzzaman told reporters at the office of the Narayanganj Superintendent of Police. 

“We are interrogating them about who intend to attack them. We will decide about them after the interrogation.”

The three movement coordinators, Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder, were picked up by some plainclothes people on Friday, according to reports.

Chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Harunor Rashid confirmed on Saturday that the coordinators are in their safe custody.