Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested ex-Awami League lawmaker and former Prime Minister鈥檚 Office principal secretary Abul Kalam Azad in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on Saturday, while a Dhaka court on the day sent former senior secretary to home ministry Md Jahangir Alam to jail.
Confirming Azad鈥檚 arrest, DMP detective branch joint commissioner for North Robiul Islam Bhuiyan said that they arrested him in the afternoon.
He, however, did not confirm in which case the arrest was made.聽
DB officials said that Azad had a connection centring the violence that happened during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 grand rally on October 28, 2023 in the capital鈥檚 Naya Paltan area.
Azad became a lawmaker from Jamalpur-5 constituency in the January 7 general elections this year contesting with Awami League nomination.聽
Home ministry鈥檚 Public Security Division鈥檚 senior secretary Jahangir was sent to jail in a murder case filed with the Dhanmondi police, state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.聽
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Arifur Rahman passed the order as the police produced Jahangir Alam before the court after his five-day remand in the case ended, and the investigation officer pleaded to keep him in jail till the end of the probe.
On October 1, a court placed Jahangir Alam on five-day remand in connection with a case filed over the killing of teenager Abdul Motalib during the student-led mass uprising on August 4.
On the same day, Jahangir was arrested from the city鈥檚 Gulshan area.
A 14-year-old boy Motalib was shot dead while he was taking part in the student-people mass-uprising at the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on August 4 last.
Later, his father Abdul Matin, filed a murder case against 176 persons, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina among them.
A Dhaka court on the day sent former Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union vice president and former lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed to jail in a case lodged over the murder of Jubo Dal leader Shamim Mollah, said another BSS report.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the order as the police produced Sultan before the court after his five-day remand had ended in the case and the investigation officer pleaded to keep him in jail till completion of the probe.
Earlier on September 30, another Dhaka court placed former lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Mansur聽 on five-day remand in a case, lodged with the Paltan police over the killing of Jubo Dal leader Shamim Mollah.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Rajshahi placed Awami League Rajshahi metropolitan unit general secretary Dabul Sarkar on a five-day remand in police custody in two separate cases filed in connection with the killing of two university students in Rajshahi on August 5, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported.聽
Judge Faisal Tarek passed the order against Dabul Sarkar after the investigation officer produced him before the court seeking a seven-day remand prayer, said metropolitan court inspector Md Abdur Rafiq.
He said that the same court also placed Jubo League activist Jahirul Islam Rubel on a three-day fresh remand on completion of twelve-day remand.
Earlier on Friday night, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Dablu Sarkar from Naogaon and handed him over to the Detective Branch of Police on Saturday morning.
Dablu Sarkar has so far been accused in eight cases, including two murder cases.
