A Dhaka court has placed arrested Awami League presidium member and former minister Shajahan Khan on seven-day remand in a murder case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court passed the order on Friday (September 6) afternoon.
Earlier, he was taken to the CMM court on Friday afternoon. Then the investigation officer of the case, Md Khokon Mia, pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand. After the hearing was over, the court placed him on a seven-day remand.
The case was filed over the murder of Abdul Motaleb, a 14-year-old boy, at Jhigatola Bus Stand area in the capital during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 4 last. Multiple bullets pierced through the chest and neck of Motaleb, leaving him dead subsequently.
Later on August 26, Abdul Matin, father of Abdul Motaleb, filed the murder case with Dhanmondi Police Station accusing 176 individuals including Sheikh Hasina and Shajahan Khan.
Besides, some 250 to 300 people were made accused in the case. Shajahan Khan is the No. 23 accused in the case.
After midnight on Thursday (September 5), Shajahan Khan was arrested by Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch of police from a residence at Dhanmondi in the capital.
Shajahan Khan was elected as a member of parliament from the Madaripur-2 constituency for the eighth consecutive term. He is also the executive president of the Bangladesh Workers Federation.
He was first elected as an MP from the Madaripur-2 constituency as an independent candidate in 1986.
