A Gazipur court yesterday placed Muaz bin Nur, a leader of the Tabligh Jamaat faction loyal to Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, on a three-day remand, in connection with a case filed over the killing of three devotees at the Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi.

The court of chief metropolitan magistrate issued the order, said Habibullah Raihan, media coordinator of Shuraye Nezam (Zubair faction).

Tongi West Police Station Officer-in-Charge Iskandar Habibur Rahman also confirmed it.

Police arrested Muaz at Uttara in Dhaka in the early hours of Friday.

Muaz, 40, known as a spokesperson for the Saad faction, was accused in the murder case filed by SM Alam Hossain, a follower of rival Tabligh leader Maulana Zubair Ahmed.

Alam of Kishoreganj filed the case on Thursday, naming 29 Saad supporters and hundreds of unidentified others.

A clash, which broke out early Wednesday over control of the Ijtema Maidan, left four dead and 50 injured. Both factions later blamed each other during separate press conferences in Dhaka.