Salman F Rahman, private industry affairs adviser to now ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former ministers Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Haq Inu, and three others were shown arrested on Wednesday in six separate cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka.
The three others shown arrested are former state minister for civil aviation Md Mahbub Ali, who is also a lawyer, former state minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Majumder, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Sharifur Rahman passed the order after Mirpur model, Kafrul, New Market, and Motijheel police stations produced them before the court with petitions seeking the court鈥檚 order for showing the six individuals arrested in the case.
Salman was shown arrested in a case filed with the New Market police in Dhaka over an attempt to kill one Md Shamim during the quota reform movement on July 16.
Hasanul Haque Inu was shown arrested in a case filed over an attack on BNP activists during a polls campaign for Mirza Abbas during the mayoral election in the capital鈥檚 Motijheel area in 2015.
Former minister Rashed Khan Menon was shown arrested in a case of attempted murder filed by the Motijheel police in connection with the attack on Afroza Abbas鈥檚 motorcade on April 28, 2015.
Kamal was shown arrested in a case filed with the Mirpur police over the death of Mahbub Hossain Mamun, and Mamun was shown arrested in a case filed with the Kafrul police in connection with the death of Mizanur Rahman Badal, both the deaths happened during the quota reform movement in July.
Former civil aviation state minister Md Mahbub Ali was shown arrested in two cases filed with the Mirpur Model Police over the death of Muttakin Billah and Sagar on July 19 in Mirpur during the student-mass uprising.
The same court, meanwhile on the day, granted a four-day remand for former food minister Qamrul Islam and former Dhaka-7 lawmaker Solaiman Selim in the Jubo Dal leader Shamim murder case filed with the Paltan police.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the remand order after the police produced the accused before the court seeking a seven-day remand for interrogation.
According to the case, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party called a mass rally in Dhaka on October 28, 2023 to counter which then ruling Awami League called another rally on the same day.
The BNP mass rally was attacked with the help of the police, leaving Jubo Dal leader Shamim killed.
The incidents led to filing of a case with the Paltan police in the capital on September 24, 2024.
Another Dhaka court on the day sent Tamanna Jasmine Riva, president of the Eden Mahila College unit of now banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, to jail after end of her remand in a case filed with the Shahbagh police over an attack on Dhaka University students.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Masuma Rahman passed the order after the police produced her before the court on completion of her remand.
The same court also granted a two-day remand for Chhatra League leaders Siam Rahman and Anwar Hossain Naeem, rejecting their bail petition in the same case.
The court passed the remand order after Detective Branch of police sub-inspector Mohammad Masud Sardar produced them seeking a 10-day remand for interrogation.
