Former state minister for planning Md Shahiduzzaman Sarkar was sent to jail in a murder case filed with Paltan Model Police Station for killing BNP activists Makbul.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order on Monday after the hearing.
Earlier, police produced Shahiduzzaman Sarkar before the court after ending a four-day remand.
On Wednesday night, Shahiduzzaman was arrested from the capital’s Uttara.
According to the case statement, on December 10, 2022, Makbul was shot dead allegedly by police led by the then chief of the Detective Branch (DB) Harun-or-Rashid during an anti-government agitation programme of BNP at its central office.
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