Former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi and former Awami League lawmaker for Dhaka-13 Sadek Khan were placed on six-day and 10-day remand respectively by two courts in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Sunday.
A Narayanganj Court on Sunday placed Golam Dastagir Gazi on six-day remand in a murder case filed with Rupganj police station as police sought 10-day remand for interrogation, Narayanganj district鈥檚 additional superintendent of police for admin Md Amir Khasru confirmed.聽聽
Former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi was arrested in the early hours of Sunday in the capital鈥檚 Shantinagar area, said Paltan police station officer-in-charge Molla Md Khalid Hossen.
鈥榃e were informed about his whereabouts by the leaders and activists of Students聽 Movement Against Discrimination. They had cordoned the house at about 3:00am,鈥� the OC said.
He said that they had kept him at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch office at Minto Road.
DMP media and public relations additional deputy commissioner Obaidur Rahman Shamim said that he was arrested in a case filed with Rupganj police station in Narayanganj.
He said that the case had several charges, including murder.
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Sunday placed former AL lawmaker for Dhaka-13 Sadek Khan on ten-day remand in a murder case filed with Mohammadpur police station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rasheduzzaman Rashed passed the order as police sought 10-day remand for interrogation, said Mohammadpur police station sub-inspector Helal Uddin.
Later in the afternoon, Awami League publicity and publications secretary Abdus Sobhan Miah Golap was arrested from West Nakhalpara in the capital at about 3:30pm on Sunday in a murder case filed with the Adabor police station, DMP ADC for media and public relations Obaidur said that Golap.聽聽
Golap was the former AL lawmaker for Madaripur-3 constituency. He was also a special assistant to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
After the fall of Hasina, the then government ministers, AL leaders, civil administration and military officials were arrested and many of them on the run to avoid arrests.
Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, former law minister Anisul Huq, former education minister Dipu Moni and former National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre director general Ziaul Ahsan were now facing the second round of remand.
