Dhaka: A court in Dhaka on Saturday granted police to question five suspected members of an international human organ smuggling gang for three days in a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Mohammad Hasibul Haque passed the order when DB inspector Alamgir Hossain Patwary produced them before the court seeking 10-day police custody for each.

Those remanded were Abdul Jalil, Sheikh Zakir alias Aziz alias Shakir, Ashiqur Rahman alias Jebin, Fazle Rabbi, and Zihan Rahman.

Earlier, detectives in a drive arrested the gang members from different parts of the city on Friday night.

Briefing reporters at the DMP headquarters, Joint Commissioner (DB) Monirul Islam said a team of DB police, led by Assistant Commissioner Mahmuda Afroz Lucky conducted separate drives in Bangla Academy and Gabtoli areas of the city and arrested them at night.

The DB team also recovered two injections, one syringe, one dagger and one towel from their possessions, Monirul Islam said.

Abdul Jalil, a suspected agent of international human organ smugglers, brought a man, Abu Hasan, to Dhaka from Joypurhat for the illegal business on Friday night.

Tipped off, the DB team arrested Abdul Jalil from the city’s Gabtali area at night and rescued Hasan from there.

Hasan informed DB that Jalil brought him here for buying a CNG-run auto-rickshaw for him in exchange of his kidney, the DB official said.

According to information given by Jalil, plainclothes police later arrested four other members–Shakir, Jebin, Fazle Rabbi, and Zihanfrom Bangla Academy area near the Dhaka University campus.

The team also rescued a victim, Mahbubur Rahman Shanto, from there.

During preliminary interrogation, the arrestees reportedly revealed that they brought Shanto here saying him he will be given Tk 20, 000 for donating blood, Monirul said.

They also confessed that they had planned to sell Shanto’s kidneys to international human organ smugglers at Tk 4 lakh, and then kill him and dump his body into the Buriganga River after taking his organs, Monirul added.