A Dhaka court on Monday placed former Awami League lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Miah Golap on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the killing of garment worker Rubel in the capital’s Adabor area during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. 

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharrof Hossain passed the order after Golap, also the publicity and publications secretary of the Awami League, was produced before the court.

Meanwhile, the journalist couple – Shakil Ahmed and Farzana Rupa – was also remanded for five days each in the same case, Daily Sun reports.

Shakil and Rupa, who worked as the head of news and principal correspondent respectively at Ekattor Television, were sacked on August 8 and arrested at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while trying to leave the country on August 21. 

The next day, a Dhaka court placed the duo on a four-day remand each in a case filed for the killing of garment worker Fazlul Karim in the Uttara area during the student-led movement.

As the couple was produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court on Monday after the expiry of the four-day interrogation, they were also shown arrested in the Rubel murder case.

While the investigating officer sought 10 days to grill the two journalists, Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharrof Hossain allowed five days for interrogation.

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