Dhaka, Dec. 23 -- A Dhaka court has granted police a day to interrogate East West University student Amjad Hossain Bukhari in custody over pasting posters of the banned organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefatullah passed the order on Tuesday.

Police arrested Bukhari while he was posting posters of the organisation in Dhaka's Motijheel on Sept 23.

Sub-Inspector Rokonuzzaman of prosecution said they had sought a three-day remand on Dec 4. Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam had applied for the remand.

Bukhari appeared in court during the hearing of the remand petition.

His lawyer Ila Naznin argued against the petition, saying her client was not present when the posters were pasted. She requested the ...