Ex-MP Solaiman Selim placed on fresh 3-day remand in student killing case

A Dhaka court has granted a fresh three-day remand for former lawmaker from Dhaka-7, Md Solaiman Selim, in the case over the murder of Ideal College first-year student Khalid Hasan Saifullah in Lalbagh's Azimpur area during the July Uprising.

On Monday (11 August), the case's investigation officer, Inspector Md Sajjad Hossain of the Detective Branch's Kotwali Zonal Team, produced Selim before the court seeking a seven-day remand.

Defence lawyers sought to cancel the remand petition and applied for bail, while the prosecution opposed it. After hearing both sides, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaq granted a three-day remand.

Selim was first arrested on the night of 13 November last year from a residence in Dhaka's Gulshan by Chawkbazar police. The next day, he was produced before a court in connection with the Rakib Hawlader murder case, where a 10-day remand was sought. However, due to the unavailability of the case file, the remand hearing did not take place, and he was sent to prison. On 27 November last year, the court granted a four-day remand for him in this case, in addition to a three-day remand in the Rakib Hawlader murder case.

According to the complaint in the Khalid murder case, on 18 July, during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Khalid Hasan Saifullah, a first-year student at Ideal College, was shot dead in the Azimpur Government Residential Area in Lalbagh. His father, Kamrul Hasan, filed a murder case at Lalbagh Police Station on 19 August, naming 52 accused, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.