6 including Tuku, Palak remanded for 2nd time

A total of six people including former deputy
speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku and former state minister for ICT Division Zunaid
Ahmed Palak were remanded for different terms in separate murder cases lodged
against them today.

The other accused are former deputy sports minister Arif Khan Joy, Awami
Leagues (AL) organising secretary Ahmad Hossain, Dhaka University (DU)
Chhatra League general secretary Tanvir Hasan Soikat and former chairman of
Chittagong Port (retired) Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail were produced before
the court along with Tuku and Palak this morning.

Investigating Officer (IO) of the case, Sub-Inspector (SI) Akkas Mia of
Lalbagh Police Station made an application asking for seven-day remand of
Tuku, Joy and Sohail in a case lodged over Ideal College student Khalid Hasan
Saifullah during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Lalbagh area on
July 18.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order placing the trio
on a three-day remand each.

Ahmad and Soikat were placed on a three-day remand each, by the same court,
as Adabor Thana Inspector Mintu Chandra Banik applied for a seven-day remand
against them in a case lodged over the death of an RMG worked during the mass
uprising in the city’s Adabor area on August 5.

Palak, however, was placed on three-day remand each in two separate murder
cases lodged with Badda and Sutrapur Polce Stations of the capital by the
same court.

Earlier on August 25, all of the six were placed on a seven-day remand each
in the Khalid Hasan Saifullah murder case. (BSS)