Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on 4-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy and mineral resources adviser to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on a four-day remand in a case over the murder of a youth in Dhaka's Badda during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order on Wednesday after the police had produced him before the court, seeking a 10-day remand for fair investigation.

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested him from the capital’s Gulshan area on Tuesday night.

A young man named Sumon Shikder, 31, was shot dead on Pragati Sarani near Fuji Tower in North Badda on July 19 during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Later, his mother Masuma filed the case against 179 individuals.

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