Salman, Palak placed on 4-day remand

A court in Dhaka granted a four-day remand for Salman F Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak each in a case filed over attempt to murder Dhaka College student Md Shamim during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Imran Ahammed passed the order on Wednesday (January 15) as police produced the two accused before the court with a seven-day remand each in the case.

According to the case statements, students of Dhaka College brought out a peaceful rally in support of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in front of their college on July 16. Cadres of Awami League and its front organizations attacked the rally, firing indiscriminately at the students. Md Shamim received shrapnel injuries on his face in the attack.

He later filed the case with the New Market Police Station on November 28.

Salman F Rahman, one of the stalwarts of the former autocratic government of Sheikh Hasina, was arrested from the capital’s Sadarghat area on August 13 as he was trying to flee the capital along with former law minister Anisul Huq through the waterways. Palak was arrested from the capital’s Nikunja area the next day.