DHAKA, July 8, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today placed four people, who have been deported from Malaysia recently over their alleged link to militancy, on a four-day remand in an anti-terror act case.

The four remanded accused are Nazrul Islam Sohagh, Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Jahed Ahmed and Mahfuz.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Minhazur Rahman passed the order as police produced the four accused before the court and pleaded to place them on a seven-day remand each in the case.

Police detained Sohagh, Redwanul and Jahed on July 3 as they reached here from Malaysia. Mahfuz was arrested from Muradnagar, Cumilla, on July 7. Inspector Md Abdul Baten of Anti Terrorism Unit (ATU) filed the case on July 5 with the capital's Airport Police Station against 35 expatriates over their militant links.

According to the case documents, the accused were allegedly luring people to militancy and running propaganda on social networking sites. They are accused of making people to take an oath of extremism, holding secret meetings by using the sites. They raised funds for militant groups elsewhere and transferring those through e-wallet and other international money transferring systems. 

Malaysian police in separate drives, managed to arrest 21 people from April 28, 2025.