Former commerce minister Tipu Munshi was placed on a four-day remand in a case filed over the murder of Suman Sikder in Dhaka's Badda area during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order after Sub Inspector Rejaul Alam of Badda Police Station also investigation officer of the case produced him before the court with a prayer to grant an eight day remand.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former commerce minister Tipu Munshi from Gulshan in the capital on Wednesday night.
Sumon Sikder was shot dead in the capital's Badda area during the student protests on July 19.
Following the incident, the victim's mother filed a murder case against 179 people including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Meanwhile, another Dhaka court on Thursday placed ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's private industry affairs adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman and former law minister Anisul Haque on five-day fresh remand in a murder case filed with Badda Police Station on August 21.
Salman and Anisul were arrested from Sadarghat area of the capital while fleeing by boat on August 13.
The next day, a Dhaka court granted a ten-day remand to the duo, in the case of murdering shopkeeper Shahjahan Ali in Newmarket area during the anti-discrimination student movement. They were also remanded for 5 days and 10 days, each, in two separate cases lodged with the Newmarket Police Station.
