Jatrabari Police Station’s ex-OC on 3-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed Abul Hasan, former officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station, on a three-day remand in a case filed over the murder attempt of a student, Manzurul Hasan Jisan, in Dhaka's Jatrabari area during quota reform protests.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiak passed the remand order on Wednesday morning (April 9).

Earlier Jatrabari police station’s Sub-Inspector Nur Hossain produced him before the court with a 5-day remand prayer in the case.

According to the case statement, Manzurul Hasan Jisan (19) was shot in the knee by police in front of Jatrabari Police Station on August 5 during the anti-discrimination student movement. He later took treatment at the hospital. Following the incident, the victim’s father Md Tajj Uddin, 66 filed the case with Jatrabari police station on September 19.