A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday placed former International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Tureen Afroz on four-day remand in police custody on allegation of attempted聽 murder of one Abdul Jabbar during the student-led mass uprising.
Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate Zakir Hossain gave the order as Uttara West police produced Tureen before the court seeking 10-day remand for questioning.
No defence lawyer represented Tureen at the hearing while public prosecutor Omar Faruq Faruqi represented the state, said court officials.
Tureen was taken to the court at about 1:00pm and kept in the custody.
She was later produced before the court amid tight security one and a half hours later.
Earlier on Monday at about 11:00pm, Uttara West police arrested Tureen Afroz at her house in the capital鈥檚 Uttara area, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner for media and public relations Muhammad Talebur Rahman.
According to the case statement, Abdul Jabbar sustained bullet injuries during the Student Movement Against Discrimination on August 5, 2024, in front of BNS Centre in Uttara.
Tureen Afroz served as the prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal from 2013 to 2019 when the war crimes trial was under way in the ICT.