A total of six people including former deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku and former state minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak were remanded on Sunday for different terms in separate murder cases lodged against them.
The other accused are former deputy sports minister Arif Khan Joy, Awami Leagues (AL) Organising Secretary Ahmad Hossain, Dhaka University (DU) Chhatra League General Secretary Tanvir Hasan Saikat and former chairman of Chittagong Port (retired) Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail were produced before the court along with Tuku and Palak Friday morning, reports BSS.
Investigating Officer (IO) of the case, Sub-Inspector (SI) Akkas Mia of Lalbagh Police Station made an application asking for seven-day remand of Tuku, Joy and Sohail in a case lodged over Ideal College student Khalid Hasan Saifullah during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Lalbagh area on July 18.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order placing the trio on a three-day remand each.
Ahmad and Saikat were placed on a three-day remand each, by the same court, as Adabor police station inspector Mintu Chandra Banik applied for a seven-day remand against them in a case lodged over the death of an RMG worked during the mass uprising in the city’s Adabor area on August 5.
Palak, however, was placed on three-day remand each in two separate murder cases lodged with Badda and Sutrapur Police Stations of the capital by the same court.
Earlier on August 25, all of the six were placed on a seven-day remand each in the Khalid Hasan Saifullah murder case.
