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A court in Dhaka on Saturday sent former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and Home Ministry Md Jahangir Alam to jail in a case lodged over the killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifur Rahman passed the order as police produced Jahangir Alam before the court after the end of his five-day remand in the case, and the investigation officer pleaded to keep him behind bars till the end of the probe, reports BSS.
On October 1, a court in Dhaka placed Jahangir Alam on a five-day remand in connection with a case filed over the killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 4.
Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka, Belal Hossain passed the order in the case as Jahangir was produced before the court over a 10-day remand prayer following his arrest from the city’s Gulshan area in the same (Tuesday) morning.
A 14-year-old boy Motalib was shot dead while he was taking part in the student-people mass-uprising in the capital’s Dhanmondi area on August 4.
Later, his father Abdul Matin filed a murder case against 176 persons including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the arrestee Jahangir Alam at Dhanmondi Police Station.