Former food minister Sadhan Majumder lands in jail

A Dhaka court has sent former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder to jail after a seven-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Daffodil International University student Ramij Uddin Rup in the capital’s Karwan Bazar area during the recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Mehedi Hasan passed the order after hearing a bail petition filed by Sadhan’s lawyer on Thursday (October 10).

Earlier, the investigating officer produced the former minister before the court after the seven-day remand and pleaded to keep him behind the bars.

A team of detective branch of police arrested Sadhan from the capital’s Bashundhara residential area on October 3.

According to the case documents, Rup, 21, was gunned down in Karwan Bazar area on August 4 as he was taking part in Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Rup’s father AKM Rakibul Ahammed filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station against 223, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.