Ex-food minister Qamrul sent to jail in Wadud killing case
He was placed on eight-day remand in the case on 19 November
A court here today sent former food minister Advocate Qamrul Islam to jail in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud in the capital's New Market area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order as police produced Qamrul before the court after end of his eight-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe.
The court of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman on 19 November had placed the former minister on eight-day remand in the case.
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Police on 18 November arrested the former minister from a house in the Uttara Sector-12 area.
Abdul Wadud was killed in the city's New Market area on 19 July last during the anti-discrimination student movement.
Wadud's relative Abdur Rahman filed the case on 21 August against 130 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Anisul Huq, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Salman F Rahman and Amir Hossain Amu.
