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A Dhaka court on Monday sent former law minister Anisul Huq to jail in a case lodged over the killing of Fazlul Karim on August 5.

Another Dhaka court showed former minister Dipu Moni, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haque Inu and Bangladesh Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon arrested in different cases filed with three police stations in the capital.


Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Ragib Nur sent Anisul to jail as police produced him before the court after end of his five-day remand in the case, Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha reported.

On November 20, the court placed the former minister on five-day remand in the case filed over the killing of Fazlul Karim on August 5, the day Hasina fled the country amid student-led mass uprising.

Anisul Huq was arrested in the Sadarghat area while trying to flee the capital through the waterways on August 13.

Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Imran Ahmed passed the order showing Inu arrested in the case filed over the killing of garment worker Sohan Shah in the capital鈥檚 Rampura area.

The same court also showed Inu and Menon arrested in a case filed over an attack on the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in the capital鈥檚 Moghbazar area.

Dipu Moni, meanwhile, was shown arrested in a murder case filed with the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh police station.

Inu was arrested at Uttara on August 26, Dipu Moni in the capital鈥檚 Baridhara area on August 19, and Menon in the Gulshan area on August 22.