Ex-minister Sadhan lands in jail in student killing case
A Dhaka court today sent former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder to jail in a case lodged over the murder of Daffodil International University student Ramij Uddin Rup in the capital's Karwan Bazar area during the recent student movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced Sadhan before the court after the end of his seven-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of the probe.
The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuddin Hossain on 4 October placed the former minister on seven-day remand in the case.
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A team of the detective branch of police arrested Sadhan from the capital's Bashundhara Residential Area on 3 October.
According to the case documents, Rup, 21, was gunned down in the Karwan Bazar area on 4 August as he was taking part in Anti-discrimination Student Movement.
Rup's father AKM Rakibul Ahammed filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station against 223 people, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
