DHAKA, Sept 17, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today granted two days remand afresh in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act with Ramna Police Station for interrogation of a Bangladesh-origin US citizen Enayet Karim Chowdhury in police custody for his alleged attempt to overthrow the interim government.
 
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Haque granted the remand for Chowdhury against a police petition seeking him to be in their custody for seven days for interrogation in the case.
 
Sub Inspector Azizul Hakim filed the case with Ramna Police Station on September 14.
 
He was earlier on September 15 was taken on two days police remand in the same case.
 
According to police they detained Chowdhury on Saturday when he was seen moving suspiciously in a posh car at Mantripara area on Mintoo Road, the residential hub of interim government's advisers.
 
Chowdhury's lawyer applied for his bail ignoring the police prayer but the magistrate rejected his prayer.
 
Police said Chowdhury arrived in Dhaka on September 6 from New York by a Qatar Airways flight and alleged that he came to Bangladesh to work to form a new government or caretaker government, dislodging the existing interim one.
 
According to police, their preliminary interrogation of Chowdhury revealed that by now he held "secret meetings" with several high-ranking or policy-making government officials, influential political business leaders.
 
Police said Chowdhury told their interrogators that the Supreme Court's Appellate Division would reestablish the caretaker government system binning a previous apex court verdict on October 21 and after that an army-supported new national government or caretaker government would be formed.