A Dhaka court on Monday showed former ministers Advocate Qamrul Islam and Rashed Khan Menon and three others arrested in fresh cases filed with different police stations.
The three other arrestees are -- former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former deputy commissioner of police's Lalbagh Zone Moshiur Rahman and former acting mayor of Gazipur City Corporation Asadur Rahman Kiron.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefatullah passed the orders, allowing separate pleas of the police.
Of the five, Qamrul was shown arrested in separate murder cases filed with the Kamrangirchar Police Station, while Menon was shown arrested in a case filed with the Motijheel Police Station.
Mamun and Moshiur were shown arrested in a case filed with the Chawkbazar Police Station and Kiron was shown arrested in a case filed with the Uttara West Police Station.
On November 18, Qamrul Islam was arrested from Uttara Sector-12 while Rashed Khan Menon was arrested on August 22 from the capital's Gulshan area.
Detective Branch of police on September 3 arrested the former police chief and arrested Moshiur on September 19.
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