Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Saturday sent Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna to fresh police custody for 10 days in a sedition case filed in connection with the recently-leaked ‘telephone conversations’ with Bangladesh Nationalist Party vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ataul Haque passed the order when Gulshan police inspector Firoz Kabir and also investigation officer of the case produced Manna before it and sought 10-day police custody again.   

On 5 March, a sedition case was filed against Mahmudur Rahman Manna and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka in connection with the leaked ‘telephonic conversation’ between the two leaders.  

Gulshan police sub-inspector Sohel Rana filed the case against him.

Earlier on 24 February, plainclothes police picked Manna up from a Banani house in the city.

Later on 25 February, Rapid Acton Battalion (RAB) confirmed Manna’s arrest and handed him over to the Gulshan Police Station.

On the same day, a Dhaka court placed him on 10-day police custody in the case.

Two audio clips of the conversations allegedly between Manna and BNP leader Khoka were leaked on 22 February.

In the conversations, Manna reportedly provoked the BNP leader to unleash a bloody clash on the Dhaka University campus.