Ex-MP Shambhu sent to jail 

A Dhaka court has sent former Barguna-1 lawmaker Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu to jail in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the order on Monday, rejecting his bail plea.

Police produced Shambhu before the court after end of his six-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the completion of probe.

The same court on November 12 had placed him on a six-day remand.

Detective Branch (DB) of the police arrested Shambhu from the capital's Uttara area on November 11.

Abdul Wadud was killed in the city's New Market area on July 19 last during the recent anti-discrimination student movement. 

Wadud’s relative Abdur Rahman filed the case on August 21 against 130 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Anisul Huq, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Salman F Rahman and Amir Hossain Amu.