A Dhaka court today placed five university students on five-day remand each in a case filed for possessing LSD.

The five arrestees are: Saiful Islam Saif, SM Monwar Aqib alias Anan, Nazmus Sakib, Nazmul Islam and BM Sirajus Salekin alias Topu.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atikul Islam passed the order after Investigation Officer Badrul Al Amin, also a sub-inspector of Khilgaon Police Station, produced the five before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, court sources said.

In the remand prayer, the IO said the arrested accused are members of a racket that sell and distribute drugs.

The accused were selling LSD and other narcotics in various parts of Dhaka online and offline, the police said in a forwarding report.

They need to be remanded to find out whereabouts of their associates, the IO added.

On the other hand, the defence for the accused submitted several petitions seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer on grounds that their clients were innocent.

Upon hearing both sides, the magistrate rejected the defence pleas and placed them on five-day remand each.

Police arrested the five from Dhaka's Khilgaon and Bhatara areas on May 29 with LSD blotting papers, a mobile phone and a laptop used for selling drugs.

On May 26, detectives arrested three university students -- Sadman Sakib Rupol, Ashaf Wadud Turjo, and Adib Ahsab -- from the capital's Dhanmondi and Lalmatia areas and seized 200 pieces of LSD blotting paper from their possession.