Ex-secretary Jahangir Alam sent to jail

A Dhaka court nowadays despatched broken-down secretary of the Election Rate (EC) Secretariat and Home Ministry Md Jahangir Alam to penitentiary in a case lodged over killing a teen Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Dart protests.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifur Rahman handed the repeat as police produced Jahangir Alam earlier than the court after the head of his 5-day remand within the case, and the investigation officer pleaded to preserve him at the encourage of the bar till waste of the probe.

On 1 October, a court here placed Jahangir Alam on 5-day remand in connection with a case filed over killing a teen Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Dart protests on 4 August.

Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka, Belal Hossain handed the repeat within the case as Jahangir change into produced earlier than the court over a 10-day remand prayer following his arrest from the metropolis’s Gulshan space within the identical (Tuesday) morning.

A 14-year-historic boy Motalib change into shot dreary whereas he change into participating within the pupil-led mass uprising at the capital’s Dhanmondi space on 4 August.

Later, his father Abdul Matin filed a waste case against 176 persons, including ousted high minister Sheikh Hasina and the arrestee Jahangir Alam, with Dhanmondi Police Dwelling.