A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday allowed a police petition to show Awami League organising secretary and former lawmaker Ahmed Hossain arrested in a case lodged over killing a teenage boy in the capital during the July-August mass uprising.
Another metropolitan magistrate court in the city sent a former lawmaker for Barguna-1 constituency, Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, to jail in a murder case.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda allowed the police petition to show Ahmed Hossain arrested in the case of killing teenage boy Abdul Motalib in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmandi area.
Ahmad Hossain was arrested from the capital鈥檚 Banashree area on August 20 and was placed on a four-day remand in Nobin Talukder murder case the next day.聽 He later was placed on remand in police custody for different terms in other cases.
Motalib, 14, was shot during an anti-quota rally in the Dhanmondi area on August 4 and later was rushed to a city hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.
Motalib鈥檚 father Abdul Matin filed the case on August 26 against 176, including Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sharifur Rahman, on the other hand, sent former lawmaker Shambu to jail over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud, Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha reported.
The court came up with the order as police produced Shambhu before the court after the end of his six-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind bars till the completion of the probe.
The same court on November 12 had placed him on a six-day remand.
Detective Branch arrested Shambhu from the capital鈥檚 Uttara area on November 11.
Abdul Wadud was killed in the city鈥檚 New Market area on July 19 last during the anti-quota student movement.
Wadud鈥檚 relative Abdur Rahman filed the case on August 21 against 130 people, including Hasina.