Ex-AL MP Momtaz Begum sent to jail after remand
A Dhaka court today (17 May) ordered to send promiment singer and former Awami League lawmaker from Manikganj Momtaz Begum to jail after ending her four-day remand in a murder case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Minhajul Islam gave the order as IO of the case Monirul Islam produced Momtaz before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court and prayed for confining her in jail till the end of the investigation.
Lawyers of the former parliament member prayed for her bail, but the metropolitan magistrate rejected the prayer and asked to send her to jail.
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Detectives arrested Momtaz from city's Dhanmondi area on 12 May. Court put her on a four-day remand in connection with Sagor murder case under Mirpur Model Thana.
Sagor, a teenage boy, was shot dead near Mirpur intersection on 29 July when he joined a procession during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
His mother, Beauty Akhter filed the murder case with Mirpur Model thana on 27 November accusing Momtaz Begum among 242 others including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina as the prime accused.
