Dipu Monir 4 and Joy 5 days remand

Former Social Welfare Minister Dr. Arrested in the case of murder of grocer Abu Saeed in Mohammadpur in the capital due to indiscriminate firing during the anti-discrimination student movement. The court granted remand of four days to Dipu Moni and five days to former Deputy Sports Minister Arif Khan Joy.

On Tuesday (August 20) Inspector Tofazzal Hossain of Mohammadpur police station applied for their 10-day remand for the sake of proper investigation of the case. After the hearing, the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin granted the remand.

The other accused in the case are former Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former IGP Abdullah Al Mamun, DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman, Additional Commissioner Harun-or-Rashid and Joint Commissioner Biplab Kumar.

According to the complaint of the case, recently, thousands of students marched in the government job quota reform movement. Peaceful processions were fired indiscriminately in different parts of the country. Many students were killed and injured. On July 19, the students and the crowd are holding a peaceful procession in the 40 feet area of ​​Basilar in Mohammadpur. Police fired indiscriminately there too. Abu Saeed, a local grocer, was shot in the head while crossing the road. He died on the spot.

It is said in the RG of the case that the deceased Syed was taken to his village house and buried in Pradhan Hat, New Basti of Boda Upazila of Panchagarh. His mother, wife, son live there. Because of this, they are unable to come to Dhaka and file a case. For this reason, this case has been filed to establish the rule of law in pursuit of conscience.

It is known that on August 13, a person named SM Amir Hamza appealed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury. Later, the court directed the officer-in-charge (OC) of Mohammadpur police station to accept the complaint as a statement. This businessman said that as a conscious citizen, he filed this case seeking justice for the murder of an innocent citizen.

In the complaint, Amir Hamza said that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has repeatedly ordered to suppress the quota reform movement with a strong hand. On the orders of Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, the IGP and senior officers of the police opened fire on the procession. The accused committed the murder in mutual connivance. So it needs to be judged.

It should be noted that in 2008, Dipu Moni was elected Member of Parliament for Chandpur-3 Constituency. He was the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh from 2009 to 2013. And from 2019 until the beginning of this year, he was the Minister of Education. Later he became Minister of Social Welfare.

On the other hand, Arif Khan Joy was elected Member of Parliament from Awami League in Netrakona-2 Constituency in 2014. This former professional footballer was the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Ministry of Bangladesh from 2014 to 2018.