Ex-Home Ministry secretary Jahangir placed on 5-day remand

A Dhaka court placed Md Jahangir Alam, former senior secretary of the Public Security Division under the Home Ministry, on a five-day remand for interrogation in a case filed over the death of 14-year-old Abdul Motaleb in the capital’s Dhanmondi during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 4.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Belal Hossain passed the remand order after hearing in the case on Tuesday (October 1).

Earlier, Inspector Nazrul Islam of Detective Branch (DB) of Police, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Jahangir before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.

Earlier in the day, detectives arrested Jahangir Alam from the Dhaka’s Gulshan area.

In the case, the victim’s father Abdul Matin alleged that his son took part in the movement on August 4 in the city’s Dhanmondi area where he was shot dead.

Following the incident, Matin filed the case on August 26 against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 175 others.