A Dhaka court on Monday sent Mustafa Kamal Uddin, former senior secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, to jail in a case lodged over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim Mollah in the capital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Monirul Islam passed the order as police produced the accused before the court after end of his three-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the completion of the probe.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmin Akter on October 25 placed Mustafa Kamal Uddin on a three-day remand in the case, BSS reports.
Detective branch (DB) police arrested him from Lalkhan Bazar area of Chattogram city on October 24.
According to the case documents, BNP called a rally in the capital's Naya Paltan area on October 28, 2023. To counter the BNP rally, the then ruling
Awami League (AL) convened a counter rally on the same day in the capital.
The AL men with the support of law enforcing agencies attacked a BNP rally which left Shamim Mollah killed nd injured many of its leaders and activists.
