A Dhaka Court on Friday placed the Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government, Rashed Khan Menon, on five-day remand in a murder case filed with the New Market police station on August 21.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Ali Haider passed the order after the police sought 10-day remand for interrogating him, New Market police station general recording officer Liakat Ali confirmed the matter to 抖阴精品.
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, police claimed that they arrested Menon at a house in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area.
Abdur Rahman, brother-in-law of victim trader Abdul Wadud, filed the case with the New Market police station on August 21 against 130 people, including deposed prime minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader.
According to the case statement, Wadud, who was shot at in front of the first gate of New Market on July 19, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
Rahman said in the statement that they had identified Wadud鈥檚 body on July 21 and received the body at about 1:30pm on the day from the DMCH morgue.
Menon was made 31 number accused in the case.聽
The case also made accused 40-50 police members of the New Market police station who were on duty near the area and AL Dhaka south city unit and its associate bodies鈥� leaders and activists.
It also made accused 250-300 unidentified armed people in the case.
The other high profile accused in the case include law minister Anisul Huq, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, deposed prime minister Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, former state minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat and inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.
Menon, a freedom fighter and former minister of the Awami League-led government, was an ally to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
He served as vice-president of the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union in 1963-64.
He was president of the then East Pakistan Students鈥� Union in 1964-67.
He was the founding general secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, which was founded in 1972.
