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Ex-energy adviser Tawfiq on four-day remand in Sumon murder case

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A court in Dhaka on Wednesday placed ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on four-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of one Sumon Shikder in the capital’s Badda area the recent anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order as police produced Tawfiq before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in the case.

The detective branch (DB) of police arrested Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury from the capital’s Gulshan area on September 10.

Sumon Shikder, 31, was killed in police firing beside Fuji Tower in the Badda area on July 19. His mother Masuma Begum filed the case against 179, including Sheikh Hasina.

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