Amu was jailed, and former MP Shambhu was remanded
Following the conclusion of his six-day remand in police custody in connection with the murder of trader Abdul Wadud in the capital, Awami League advisory council member and AL-led alliance coordinator Amir Hossain Amu was condemned to jail by a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday.
On the same day, another Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court permitted the police to detain Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, a former AL lawmaker for Barguna-1, for six days so that he could be questioned in police custody in connection with the July 19 student-mass uprising in the capital's New Market area, where Abdul Wadud was killed.
following the police brought Amu, a former AL lawmaker for Jhalokathi-2, before the court following his six-day remand in police custody, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman sent the former minister to jail.
A police appeal asking the court to allow the top Awami League politician to remain in custody till the conclusion of the case's investigation was granted by the court.
Amu was taken into custody by the police on November 6 in Dhaka's West Dhanmondi.
Police brought Shambhu before the court, requesting a 10-day remand in police custody for questioning in the matter, and Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman issued the remand order.
He was taken into custody by the police on Monday in Uttara, Dhaka.
In a case involving the murder of college student Riaz Hossain in the city's Keraniganj neighborhood, a judicial magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday permitted the police to detain Abdul Matin Hawlader, the personal officer of AL general secretary Obaidul Quader.
When the police brought Matin before the court, senior judicial magistrate Abdullah Mohammad Saleh of Dhaka issued the order.
Matin was taken into custody by the police on Monday afternoon in Keraniganj's Char Washpur village.
Additionally, BSS stated that Yahya Chowdhury, a former Jatiya Party member for the Sylhet-2 constituency from the capital's Uttara, was taken into custody by a police and Rapid Action Battalion squad on Monday night.
