Former social welfare minister Dr Dipu Moni and former deputy minister of youth and sports Arif Khan Joy have been taken on a four-day and five-day remand respectively in a case filed over the killing of grocer Abu Sayed, amid the Boishommo Birodhi Chhatra Andolon movement.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin granted the remand after a hearing on Tuesday. The case investigating officer Inspector Tofazzal Hossain of Mohammadpur police station had applied for remand earlier in the day.
On the night of August 19, Dr Dipu Moni was arrested from Baridhara DOHS in the capital. On the other hand, Arif Khan Joy was arrested during a raid in the Dhanmondi area the same night.
According to the remand plea, Sheikh Hasina, former bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former inspector general of police (IGP) Abdullah Al-Mamun, DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, additional IGP Harun-or-Rashid, additional Joint Commissioner of Police Biplob Kumar, unnamed Awami League leaders and activists, and senior officers and members of the police have already been identified as murderers, power-hungry, and torturers.
It added that the government of Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign in the face of the anti-discrimination student movement for quota reform. The quota reform movement gained momentum from July 18.
The previous Awami League government started to suppress this movement of students. On the orders of the accused Sheikh Hasina and Obaidul Quader, the police fired indiscriminately on students and crowds in different areas of the country, including Dhaka.
Thousands of students and people were marching in support of the quota reform movement at Bosila 40 feet intersection under Mohammadpur police station around 4pm on July 19.
The police fired indiscriminately on the protestors to quell the protest. At that time, Abu Sayed, 45, was shot dead by the police while crossing the road in that area. The bullet entered through one side of his head and exited through the other.
