A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take Supreme Court Bar Association鈥檚 former secretary Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi and Dhaka North City Corporation鈥檚 former mayor Atiqul Islam in custody for interrogation in separate murder cases.
Besides, the same court on Wednesday placed former agriculture minister Md Abdus Shahid on three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with the Uttara West police station under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947.
The court of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury placed former SCBA secretary Momtaz on three-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of bus driver Alamgir Hossain during the student-led mass uprising.
The court passed the order as police produced him before the court and pleaded to place him on seven-day remand in the case.
Mehedi was arrested at his Uttara Sector 9 house on November 10.
Alamgir Hossain, 34, a driver of Raida Paribahan, was gunned down in Uttara鈥檚 Azampur area on August 5 during the student-led mass uprising that eventually ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Victim鈥檚 mother Aleya Begum filed the case on October 6, against 288 people including Hasina.
The same court placed former DNCC mayor Atiqul on five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of one Bokul Miah with the Uttara East police station on July 18.
The police arrested Atiqul in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali DOHS area on October 16. The court sent him to jail the next day, showing him arrested in three separate murder cases.
Bokul Miah was shot at in his head and succumbed to his injuries the next day.
Later, his wife Monika Akter filed the case with the police station.
The same court on Wednesday placed former minister Abdus Shahid on three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with the Uttara West police station under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947.
The case was filed under section 23 (1) of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury passed the order as police produced him before the court and pleaded to place him on seven-day remand.
On October 30, the court placed him on four-day remand in a case lodged over bus driver Alamgir Hossain鈥檚 murder.
The former minister was arrested at his residence at Uttara in the early hours of October 30, where Tk 3.20 crore, $1,953, and other currencies were recovered from the house.
