A Cumilla court has placed former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shahidul Haque and two others on a two-day remand in connection with the arson attack on a bus that killed eight people in 2015.
Cumilla Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate Farhana Sultana passed the order on Monday when the investigating officer of the case produced them before the court and pleaded for 10-day remand.
The two others are former Jatiya Sangsad secretariat's joint secretary Golam Kibria Majumdar, and one Jahirul Islam Selim, said Public Prosecutor Quimul Haque.
According to the case statement, on February 3, 2015eight people were killed when miscreants set a bus of ‘Icon Paribahan’ on fire at Jagmohanpur in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla.
Following the incident, a case was filed against 64 people, including BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
After the fall of the AL-led government, Abul Khayer, a supervisor of the bus, filed a case against 130 named and 190 unnamed people.
