Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President Hasanul Haq Inu were placed on remands on Tuesday in separate murder cases filed in Dhaka.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifur Rahman placed Menon on a six-day remand in garment worker Rubel murder case and Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Haider placed Inu on a seven-day remand in Abdul Wadud murder case.
The Investigation Officer Mintu Chandra Banik, an inspector of Adabor Police Station, produced Menon before the court of Md Saifur Rahman with a prayer to grant a 10-day remand in garment worker Rubel murder case.
Menon, a key leader of the Awami League-led 14-Party Alliance, earlier on August 23, was placed on a five-day remand by another court in trader Abdul Wadud murder case .
Deposed Sheikh Hasina's cabinet member, Menon, was arrested in Gulshan on August 22.
In the past Awami League government, Menon had first served as the civil aviation and tourism minister, and later as the social welfare minister. He was elected MP from Barishal-2 in the last national polls held on January 7.
The chief of the leftist Workers Party had also served as the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Education.
Inu was arrested at his relative's house in Uttara of Dhaka on Monday.
On August 21, Abdur Rahman, the victim's brother-in-law, filed the case with New Market Police Station against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 129 others.
Besides this case, Inu has been accused in several other cases after Hasina resigned and fled on August 5 in the face of a mass uprising.
He is also facing charges of crimes against humanity along with Hasina at the International Crimes Tribunal.
Inu is an ally leader of the Awami League-led 14-party coalition.
Hasanul Haque Inu served as information minister in one of the cabinet's of the AL government.
He, however, lost in the 12th parliamentary elections to a rebel AL candidate from a Kushtia constituency.
