A Dhaka court on Friday ordered the police to interrogate Latif Bhuiyan Kamal, brother-in-law of former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, at jail gate for three days in a case lodged over the murder of Pervej Bepari in the capital鈥檚 Badda area during the July-August mass uprising in the past year.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mahbub Alam passed the order as police produced Latif, former chairman of Barura upazila in Cumilla, before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in the case.
The police arrested Latif Bhuiyan Kamal from a house in the city鈥檚 Aftab Nagar area on Friday.
According to the case documents, furniture-store worker Pervej Bepari, 23, joined the anti-discrimination rally in North Badda area on July 19, 2024. The rally came under attack after jumma prayers and Pervej was brutally beaten by the attackers. They also shot him to make sure his death. Pervej was later taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.
Pervej鈥檚 father Sabuj Bepari filed the case on July 2 with the Gulshan police station.
