Ex-minister Qamrul Islam on 4-day remand in Khaled murder case
A Dhaka court today placed former food minister Advocate Qamrul Islam on a four-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Khaled Hasan Saifullah in Lalbagh area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Belal Hossain passed the order as police produced the former minister before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand.
Police on 18 November arrested the former minister from a house in the Uttara Sector-12 area. He was placed on an eight-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud.
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Khaled Hasan Saifullah was killed on 18 July while taking part in an anti-discrimination rally in the Lalbagh Government Residential Colony area. His father Kamrul Hasan on 19 August filed the case against 52 including ousted
prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
