The Crime Desk: Former IGP Shahidul Haque has been sent to jail in the case of the murder of businessman Abdul Wadud in the capital’s Newmarket police station during the anti-discrimination quota movement.
On Wednesday (September 11) morning, after the seven-day remand, Shahidul Haque was produced in the court and requested to be detained in jail. In view of the application, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider ordered to send him to jail.
On September 4, the court granted his seven-day remand. On that day another former IGP, Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, was granted eight days remand in the case of the murder of grocery shopkeeper Abu Saeed in Mohammadpur.
Businessman Abdul Wadud was shot dead by the police in Neelkhet area under Newmarket police station on the afternoon of July 19 during the anti-discrimination student movement. In this incident, his brother-in-law Abdur Rahman filed a murder case against 130 people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader.
