3 BCL leaders also sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Friday sent the former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam to jail in a case filed with the Uttara East police station over the killing of Md Fazlul Karim on August 5.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Dilruba Tithi passed the order as police produced Atiqul before the court after the end of his three-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe.
A court on January 22 remanded him in the case.
According to the case documents, Fazlul Karim joined anti-discrimination rally in Uttara Jasim Uddin intersection on August 5. He got shot by assailants at about 4:30pm and was rushed to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital, where he died to his injuries at about 9:20pm.
Karim鈥檚 brother Anwar Hosssain Ainal filed the case on August 21 against 39, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Police arrested the former DNCC mayor in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali DOHS on October 16. He was placed on different terms of remand in cases filed over crimes committed during July-August mass uprising.
Meanwhile, another the same court sent to jail three leaders of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League on the same day after getting arrested for distributing propaganda leaflets against the interim government, in front of National Press Club in the city.
The three accused are BCL central leader Abu Hasib Mukto, its Dhaka University wing leader Imdadul Hasan Sohagh, and former organising secretary of Rajapur thana unit of Jhalakathi Saifuzzaman Rubel.
The court passed the order as police produced the trio before it and pleaded to keep them behind the bars till the end of probe in the case.
Police arrested the three BCL leaders for the city鈥檚 Shewrapara area Thursday night.
According to the case documents, the accused along with their associates brought out a sudden procession on the morning of February 1 in front of National Press Club, chanting anti-government and anti-state slogans, distributing propaganda-leaflets. Police filed the case with the Shahbagh police station in this connection on February 2.