A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent three traders of Chandni Chowk to jail after end of their one-day remand in a case lodged for assaulting and attempting to kill two students of Dhaka University for protesting eve-teasing at the market.
The three accused are Nazrul Islam Milon, Md Chunnu Miah and Nazmul.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order as the police produced the trio before the court after end of their remand and pleaded to keep them behind the bars till the end of probe.
Earlier on May 27, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahin Reza placed the three accused on one day remand each.
According to the case documents, DU students Mohammad Sahedul Islam and Ayejur went to a shop at the Chandni Chowk market at around 8 pm on May 26. A girl was bargaining at the shop at the time. They saw that the shop staff were teasing and abusing the girl for bargaining. The two students protested the shop staff鈥檚 behaviour. The shop owners and staff then started beating the two students indiscriminately.
Mohammad Sahedul Islam later filed the case with the New Market police station.