A Dhaka court has placed former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and Home Ministry Md Jahangir Alam on five days remand in connection with a murder case.
The case was lodged over killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during the anti-discrimination student movement on 4 August.
Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka, Belal Hossain passed the order in the case on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, Jahangir was turned-into the court with a 10-day remand prayer following his arrest from the city’s Gulshan area this (Tuesday) morning.
