A Dhaka court today sent former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder to jail in a case lodged over the murder of Daffodil International University student Ramij Uddin Rup in the capital's Karwan Bazar area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced Sadhan before the court after the end of his seven-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuddin Hossain on October 4 placed the former minister on seven-day remand in the case.

A team of detective branch of police arrested Sadhan from the capital's Bashundhara Residential Area on October 3.

According to the case documents, Rup, 21, was gunned down in Karwan Bazar area on August 4 as he was taking part in anti-discrimination student movement. 

Rup's father AKM Rakibul Ahammed filed the case with Tejgaon PoliceStation against 223 including the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

BDST: 1657 HRS, OCT 10, 2024
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