A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Friday placed former shipping minister and Awami League presidium member Shahjahan Khan on seven-day remand in a murder case filed with the Dhanmondi police station on August 26.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mahbub Ahmed passed the order as the police produced him before the court seeking 10-day聽 remand in custody for interrogation, police inspector Md Asaduzzaman confirmed the matter.
Victim Abdul Motalib鈥檚 father Abdul Matin filed the case with the Dhanmandi police station against 176 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Shajahan Khan.
Abdul Matin said that his son was a student of Class VIII and was killed on August 4 in violence during the student-led mass uprising near Jigatala Bus Stand.
Matin added that his son sustained bullet injuries.聽聽聽
In the early hours of Friday, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested Shahjahan Khan at a house in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area.
Later, he was taken to the DB office in the capital鈥檚 Minto road.
Earlier in 2014, the ACC summoned the former minister over allegations related to irregularities in plot allocation and accumulation of illegal assets.
His affidavit for the 11th parliamentary elections revealed his huge wealth, including two cars, 96 bhari of gold belonging to his wife, and two buses registered in the name of his wife.
He also served as a chairman of the standing committee of the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs.
Shahjahan Khan was an Awami League lawmaker for Madaripur-2 constituency in Jatiya Sangsad dissolved after Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation and fleeing to India amid a student-led mass uprising.
Shahjahan was elected as a lawmaker with the AL nomination in general elections held in 1991, 1996, 2001, 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024 from the same constituency.
Shahjahan, also the president of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, became a lawmaker from the constituency in 1986 as an independent candidate for the first time.
The Rapid Action Battalion, meanwhile, has arrested former land minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif鈥檚 son Shirhan Sharif Tomal at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna, RAB-12 in a text message confirmed the matter to the media.
The agency also claimed that it had recovered an imported pistol, a magazine, four rounds of bullets, and 10 Yaba tablets as well as seized Shirhan鈥檚 car.
The RAB said that Shirhan was accused of launching attack on students during the movement of the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform.
RAB media and legal wing director Lieutenant Colonel Munim Ferdous said that the process of handing over the accused to the Ishwardi police station was underway.
