A Chattogram court on Friday ordered to send Md Sharif Mahmud, ex-public relation officer of the home ministry to jail after rejecting his bail petition.
Chattogram metropolitan magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique passed the order today after police produced him before the court, sources said.聽
Chattogram metropolitan police on Thursday brought Md Sharif Mahmud, currently working as deputy regional director of Bangladesh Betar, Chattogram centre, into their custody when a group of students, identifying themselves as leaders and supporters of Anti-Discrimination Students Movement, staged agitation at Betar centre at Agrabad, demanding his arrest and punishments.聽
ADMS leaders alleged that Sharif Mahmud had been involved in suppressive activities against July-August student鈥搇ed movement as PRO of the then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan聽 Kamal.
Doublemooring thana police said that they had shown arrested Sharif Mahmud under 54 of Penal Code and he was implicated in a case filed earlier by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
鈥榃e have informed the ACC officials about his arrest and further legal action will be taken against him on the basis of the ACC鈥檚 decision,鈥� OC of Doublemooring police Rafiq Ahmed told journalists.