An additional metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday allowed the police to take placed Awami League presidium member and former food minister Qamrul Islam in custody for eight days for interrogation in a case of killing during the recent student-mass uprising.
Besides, former panel mayor of Gazipur City Corporation and vice president of the district unit of AL, Asaduzzaman Kiron, was detained while trying to flee to India early Tuesday, the police said.
Court officials said that Dhaka additional metropolitan magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman allowed the police to take Qamrul in custody for eight days for interrogation in the case of killing trader Abdul Wadud in the New Market area in the capital on July 19.
He was produced before the court on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested by the police at the capital鈥檚 Uttara Monday night.
Wadud鈥檚 relative Abdur Rahman filed the case on August 21 against 130 people, including Hasina.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Jashore reported that the Border Guard Bangladesh arrested former GCC panel mayor Asaduzzaman Kiron while he was trying to enter India through the Shikarpur border under Sharsha upazila in Jashore.
The commanding officer of 49 BGB, Lieutenant Colonel Saifullah Siddiqui, said that, on information, a BGB team went there and arrested Kiron while he was fleeing to India illegally.
鈥楬e is wanted in several cases,鈥� he said, adding that Kiron was handed over to the police.
The police also arrested former textiles and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi鈥檚 assistant private secretary Firoz Bhuiyan at a hotel in Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
Cox鈥檚 Bazar superintendent of police Rahmat Ullah said that Firoz, hailed from Rupganj of Narayanganj district, was accused in several cases under different police stations in Narayanganj.
