A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday placed former deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku, former state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, and Dhaka University unit of Chhatra League general secretary Tanvir Hasan Saikat on a 10-day remand in a case filed over the killing of a rickshaw puller in the capital.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Rashidul Alam passed the order allowing a police plea seeking the court鈥檚 permission to take them in police custody for 10 days for interrogation in the murder case, bench assistant Salah Uddin said.
The police submitted the plea after producing the trio before the court.
The petition claimed that the three accused persons were central leaders of the Awami League and its student wing, Bangladesh Chhatra League, and, following their instructions, miscreants opened fire indiscriminately targeting common people during the recent government job quota movement.
It also alleged that the plaintiff鈥檚 husband Kamal Mia, a rickshaw puller by profession, was seriously injured in Paltan area of the capital due to the indiscriminate shooting, and later, when the victim was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the doctor on duty declared him dead.
No lawyer defended the three accused persons.
On way to the courtroom from the custody of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, a group of lawyers chanted slogans demanding capital punishment for the trio.
Many of the lawyers threw eggs and shoes targeting the three on the court premises.
On Wednesday evening, the three leaders were arrested at Nikunja residential area under Khilkhet police station in Dhaka, where they were in hiding following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation and fleeing to India amid a student-led uprising on August 5.
Victim Kamal Mia鈥檚 wife, Fatema Khatun, filed a case with Paltan Police Station against unidentified assailants over murdering her husband on July 19.
On Wednesday, a metropolitan magistrate court placed deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq on a 10-day remand in a case filed with New Market Police Station over the killing of hawker, Shahjahan Ali.