A court in Dhaka on Wednesday placed Salman F. Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and former state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on a four-day remand each in a case lodged over the attempted murder of Dhaka College student Md Shamim during the anti-discrimination student movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Imran Ahammed passed the order after police produced the two accused before the court on Wednesday and requested a seven-day remand for each of them in the case, reports BSS.
According to the case documents, students of Dhaka College organized a peaceful rally in support of the anti-discrimination student movement in front of their college on July 16. Cadres of the Awami League and its front organizations attacked the rally, firing indiscriminately at the students. Md Shamim sustained shrapnel injuries to his face in the attack. He later filed the case with the New Market Police Station on November 28.
Salman F. Rahman, one of the prominent figures of Sheikh Hasina's former autocratic government, was arrested from the capital's Sadarghat area on August 13 while attempting to flee the capital along with former law minister Anisul Huq via the waterways. Palak was arrested from the capital's Nikunja area the following day.
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