A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Saturday placed former Awami League lawmaker from Kushtia-4 constituency, Selim Altaf George, and two police personnel on fresh remand in two cases filed for incidents during the student-led mass uprising.
Selim Altaf was placed on a two-day fresh remand in a murder case filed with Mohammadpur police station in Dhaka, while police constable Soaibur Rahman and naik Sajib Sarker were put on a two-day remand for the third time in a case filed with Shahjahanpur police station for creating chaos in the police force by inciting colleagues through social media posts.
The court of metropolitan magistrate Arafatul Rakib passed the orders after hearing separate petitions seeking the court鈥檚 permission to take them in police custody for interrogation in the cases.
Mohammadpur police station鈥檚 sub-inspector Altaf Hossain produced former lawmaker Selim Altaf before the court after completion of his three-day remand and pleaded to take him in their custody for five days for further interrogation in the case of killing an auto-rickshaw driver, Md Roni, on July 19 in the Muhammadpur area in Dhaka.
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the former lawmaker at the capital鈥檚 Lalmatia on September 17.
The Shahjahanpur police produced police constable Soaibur and naik Sajib before the court on completion of their remand for five days in two phases and sought a five-day remand for further interrogation in the case of creating chaos in the police force by inciting colleagues through social media posts during the anti-discrimination movement.
Soaibur was arrested at Jashore Police Lines in Jashore district town and Sajib was arrested at Razarbagh Police Lines in Dhaka on September 16, the day when sub-inspector Amit Hasan filed the case with Shahjahanpur police station in the capital.