Qamrul, Jakob sent to jail after remand

A court here today sent former food minister Advocate Qamrul Islam to jail in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud in the capital’s New Market area and sent former lawmaker of Bhola-4 Abdullah Al Islam Jakob to jail in a case lodged over the murder of one Shamim Hawlader in the capital’s Rupnagar area during the July-August mass uprising.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub sent Qamrul to jail as police produced him before the court after end of his eight-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe.

The court of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman on November 19 had placed the former minister on eight-day remand in the case.

Police on November 18 arrested the former minister from a house in the Uttara Sector-12 area.
 
Abdul Wadud was killed in the city’s New Market area on July 19 last during the 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.

Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Md Zunaid sent Jakob to jail as police produced the former lawmaker before the court after end of his three-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Imran Ahammed on November 20 placed Jakob on a three-day remand in the case.

Abdullah Al Islam Jakob was arrested from the capital’s Gulshan area on October 1.

Shamim Hawlader got shot on July 20 in the Probeshika intersection area under Rupnagar Police Station in the capital. He died from his injuries in the hospital. Shamim’s cousin Samrat later filed the case in this connection.