TDS Desk:

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Atiqul Islam on a five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of one Bokul Miah with Uttara East Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury passed the order as police produced him before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in the case.

Police arrested the former DNCC mayor from the capital’s Mohakhali DOHS area on 16 October. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Haider the next day sent Atiqul Islam to jail, showing him arrested in three separate murder cases.

According to the case documents, the victim Bokul Miah joined the anti-discrimination student movement on 18 July in Uttara East area. He was shot on his head and succumbed to his injuries the next day.

Later his widow Monika Akter filed the case with Uttara East Police Station.