A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President Hasanul Haq Inu on a four-day remand in a case filed over Class XI student Khalid Hasan Saifullah murder in Lalbagh on July 18.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order after the investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Akkas Mia of Lalbagh police station, produced Inu with a seven-day remand prayer.
On the other hand, another Dhaka court sent former shipping minister Shajahan Khan to jail on Sunday in a case filed over the killing of Abdul Motalib, 14, in Dhanmandi, Dhaka during the recent student-led mass uprising.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order as police produced Shahjahan before the court after the end of his two out of seven-day remand in the case and prayed to the court to keep him in jail till the end of the probe.
With this, Inu will be on remand for 16 days in connection with three murder cases filed with different police stations.
Meanwhile, Inu was produced before another Dhaka court today in connection with another case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station over the death of a truck driver, Md Sujan, during the quota protests on July 20. Inu was arrested from the home of a relative in Dhaka's Uttara on August 26.
Inu was accused in several other cases after former Prime Minister Hasina resigned and fled the country in the face of a mass uprising on August 5. He is also among those facing charges of crimes against humanity along with Hasina at the International Crimes Tribunal.
He was a key partner of the Awami League-led 14-party coalition that was in power from January 6, 2009, to August 5, 2024. He was information minister from September 2012 till the first week of January 2019.
The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed on September 6 placed Shajahan Khan, also Awami League presidium member, on a seven-day remand in the case. Khan was arrested from the capital's Dhanmandi area on September 5.
