Salman, Anisul land in jail in another case
News Desk :
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s advisor Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq have been put in jail custody pending trial over the murder of Parvez Mia during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kawser Pervin passed the order on Friday.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Sharifuzzaman, the general recording officer of the court’s Jatrabari Police Station, confirmed the decision.
After the end of their remand, the investigating officer SI Nazmul Hasan sought to keep them behind bars.
The court had earlier granted a four-day remand for the two on Feb 10.
According to the case documents, Parvez joined an anti-discrimination protest in Jatrabari on Aug 5, the day the Awami League government was ousted.
He was shot in the afternoon and taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where he died shortly after.
His mother Kaniz Fatema filed the case with Jatrabari Police Station on Oct 29, 2024.
Salman, vice chairman of Beximco Group, one of Bangladesh’s leading industrial conglomerates, became the private sector development affairs advisor to Hasina in 2009.
In 2019, he was appointed as the prime minister’s advisor on private industry and investment with the rank of a minister.
He was elected MP from the Dhaka-1 constituency in the last two elections.
Lawyer Anisul was the lead prosecutor in the state cases for the assassinations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four leaders of the wartime national government-acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman.
During the Awami League’s tenure, he handled several significant state cases, including the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, or BDR, mutiny case.
His father, the late Sirajul Islam, was a renowned lawyer and politician, and a member of the committee that drafted the constitution of an independent Bangladesh.
Anisul first became an MP from the Brahmanbaria-4 constituency on an Awami League ticket in the Jan 5, 2014 elections.
That same year, he was appointed as Minister of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs in the Awami League government.
Hasina retained him in the same position in her two subsequent cabinets.
Following the fall of the Hasina government, Salman and Anisul were arrested in Sadarghat on Aug 13 last year.
They were initially shown arrested in a separate case filed with New Market Police Station over casualties during the quota reform protests.