A Dhaka Court on Wednesday placed Awami League organizing secretary Ahmed Hossain and former chairman of Chittagong Port Authority, Rear Admiral (retd) Mohammad Sohail on a four-day remand in the murder case of grocer Nabiul Talukdar in Paltan.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jasim Uddin passed the order after Sub Inspector Nazmul Hasan of Paltan Police Station, also Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, produced the duo before the court with a prayer to grant a ten-day remand for questioning.
No lawyers were present on behalf of the accused.
During hearing the accused Sohail claimed that he was not present at the scene during the incident and he was in Chattogram.
Ahmad Hossain and Mohammad Sohail were arrested from the city's Rampura and Banani areas respectively on Tuesday night.
Sohail was also a former spokesperson of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
In the last national election, Ahmad Hossain was elected MP from Netrokona -5 constituency with symbol of boat.
The leaders of Awami League and its associate bodies went into hiding after Sheikh Hasina had resigned as prime minister and left the country on August 5 in the face of the student-people movement.
Former ministers, government officials and other top officials who served at important posts of the state are in the list of the people who went into hiding after the ouster of the government.
Some of them are being arrested from different areas of the country.
