A court in Chattogram on Wednesday placed former Awami League MP Md Abdul Latif on a two-day remand in a case filed over shooting and injuring a protester during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed the order placing MA Latif, an Awami League MP, from Chattogram-11 (Bandar-Patenga) constituency.
Earlier, he was produced before the court from jail amid tight security measures. After the hearing on his remand was over, he was sent to jail again.
Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate court's public prosecutor Mofizul Huq Bhuiyan said MA Latif is an accused in a case filed at Kotwali Police Station in the port city over attacking and shooting on student-people rally at New Market crossing on August 4 last. The investigation officer pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand for questioning in the case. However, after the hearing, the court placed him on a two-day remand.
On the day before of Sheikh Hasina government's fall in the wake of student-people's movement, Chattogram University student Tahfimul Islam was injured in an attack on a rally at New Market crossing in the port city on August 4. Later, a case was filed mentioning the names of 735 people and making 1,200 as unidentified accused with Kotwali Police Station under the Explosives Act. Former MP Latif was the No. 23 accused of the case.
Following the fall of Sheikh Hasina government on August 5, police arrested MA Latif on August 17. On that day, he was sent to jail showing arrested in a case filed at Double Mooring Police Station.
