
Separate courts in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Wednesday placed former minister Golam Dastagir Gazi and an ex-Awami League lawmaker for Kushtia-4 constituency, Selim Altaf George, on remand for different terms in separate cases of murders during the recent student-led mass uprising.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka also allowed separate petitions filed by the police to show ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s private industry and investment affairs adviser Salman F Rahman and former ministers Anisul Huq, and Zunaid Ahmed Palak arrested in three murder cases filed with Badda and Khilgaon police stations.
Besides, former Appellate Division judge, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, was shown arrested in six murder cases filed with Adabar, Lalbagh, Badda and Paltan police stations.
Officials said that Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam placed Selim Altaf on a three-day remand over the murder of auto-rickshaw driver Md Rony in Mohammadpur area on July 19.
Selim Altaf was arrested by the detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at his Lalmatia residence in Dhaka early Wednesday.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Narayanganj, responding to a petition, allowed the police to take former minister Golam Dastagir Gazi in police custody for five days in the case of killing Md Parvez Hossain lodged with Fatulla police station.
Golam Dastagir, who was arrested at his Shantinagar home by DB police on August 24, was shown arrested in Parvez murder case.
Earlier, he was ‘shown arrested’ in three other murder cases, one with Rupganj Thana and two others with Araihajar police station.
Parvez Hossain was shot dead by the police in Bhuigar area under Fatulla police station during the anti-discrimination movement on July 19.
Officials said that a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday granted a petition filed by the police to show Salman F Rahman arrested in connection with two murder cases filed with Badda police station and one with Khilgaon police station over the deaths of Emdadul Haque, Taufiqul Islam Bhuiyan and Hasan Mahmud.
The court also allowed a petition filed by the police to show Anisul arrested in two cases filed with Badda Police Station over the deaths of Taufiqul Islam Bhuiyan, Abdul Jabbar Sumon and Sirajul Bepary.
Anisul and Salman were arrested in the capital’s Sadarghat on August 13.
The court also allowed a police petition seeking the court’s permission to show Palak arrested in two cases filed with Badda Police Station over the deaths of Emdadul Haque and Taufiqul Islam during the recent quota reform movement.
Palak was arrested at Dhaka’s Nikunja residential area in Khilkhet on August 14.
The court granted another application filed by the police to show former inspector general of police Abdullah Al Mamun arrest in two murder cases filed with Badda police station.
Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki Al Farabi’s court granted the applications filed by the police for showing Salman, Anisul, Palak, Justice Manik, and ex-IGP Mamun arrested in murder cases.
The court also sent them to jail.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider’s court placed Rongdhanu Group director Mizanur Rahman Mizan on a two-day remand in a case filed with Khilkhet Police Station in the capital, for demanding a ransom of taka 5 crore.
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