Ex-secretary Jahangir Alam sent to jail
A Dhaka court today sent former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and Home Ministry Md Jahangir Alam to jail in a case lodged over killing a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement protests.
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 the bar till end of the probe.
On 1 October, a court here placed Jahangir Alam on five-day remand in connection with a case filed over killing a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement protests on 4 August.
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.
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A 14-year-old boy Motalib was shot dead while he was taking part in the student-led mass uprising at the capital's Dhanmondi area on 4 August.
Later, his father Abdul Matin filed a murder case against 176 persons, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the arrestee Jahangir Alam, with Dhanmondi Police Station.
