Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Friday placed 28 female activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, arrested from the city’s Mohammadpur area on Thursday, on a two-day police custody for interrogation in a case filed under the Special Powers Act.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Delwar Hossain passed the order after officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Mohammadpur Police Station Md Shafiqul Islam, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court seeking a seven-day police custody for interrogation, said General Recording Officer of the court sub-inspector Nizam Uddin.

Police arrested the female Jamaat activists from a flat of Tajmahal Road of Mohammadpur area on Thursday for allegedly plotting to oust the government.

Later, a case was filed against them under the Special Powers Act.