A former Awami League lawmaker for reserved seat, Safia Khatun, was arrested Saturday evening at Balughat of Pallabi area in the capital in the case of killing Akram Khan Rabbi during the July-August mass uprising.
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former inspector general of police sent to jail after the completion of three-day remand while a Panchagarh court sent former railways minister and AL lawmaker for Panchagarh-2, Nurul Islam Sujan,聽 to jail rejecting the bail petition.
Safia, also a former vice-president of Mahila AL, was arrested at about 10:00pm, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for media and public relations Muhammad Talebur Rahman.
鈥楶olice arrested Safia after analysing CCTV footage,鈥� Talebur added.
Pallabi police station officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam said that they had produced the former lawmaker before a Dhaka court on Sunday and the court sent her to jail.
鈥榃e will later seek the court鈥檚 permission to take her in custody for interrogation,鈥� the OC added.
On July 19, Akram Khan Rabbi was shot dead during the student-led movement in front of Abul Taleb School at Mirpur-10 in the capital.
Later, he was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared him dead.
The victim鈥檚 father, Faruk Khan, filed the murder case with Pallabi police station on August 25.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court sent former IGP Mamun to jail in a case filed with Uttara East police station over killing Fazlul Karim during the anti-discrimination student movement at Jasim Uddin crossing in Dhaka on August 5, state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported. 聽
The court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Ashrafuzzaman sent former railways minister Sujan to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case over the kidnapping and murder of Al Amin, a local battery-run auto rickshaw driver, United News of Bangladesh reported.
