A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed actress Shomi Kaiser and Gaan Bangla television channel chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh on three-day remand each in a case filed over attempt to murder businessman Ishtiak Mahmud during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman passed the order, scrapping bail pleas filed by Shomi and Taposh.
Police arrested Shomi Kaiser from a house on Road-6 of sector-4 of the city's Uttara area early today, while Taposh too was arrested from Uttara on November 4.
According to the case statement, Ishtiak Mahmud along with others joined a rally of the anti-discrimination student movement on July 18. As the rally reached Azampur Nawab Habibullah High School in Uttara Sector-4, Awami League goons pounced on them, firing indiscriminately at the protesters.
One bullet hit Ishtiak in the abdomen, and he was rushed to Evercare Hospital where he underwent treatment for his injuries.
On September 29, Ishtiak Mahmud registered a case with Uttara East Police Station against 126.
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