Babu, Shyamal, Shahriar placed on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed senior journalists Mozammel Haque Babu, Shyamal Dutta and former president of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Shahriar Kabir on a seven-day remand in two separate murder cases.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the orders on Tuesday.

Earlier, police produced the accused before the court and sought a 10-day remand.

Shyamal Dutta was placed on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the killing of Mohammad Fazlu, 31, in Dhaka's Bhasantek area during the student-led mass uprising on 5 August.

On the other hand, the court placed Mozammel Haque Babu and Shahriar Kabir on remand in connection with a case filed with Ramna Model Police Station over the killing of domestic help Liza in the city’s Ramna area during the Anti-Discrimination Movement on 18 July.

On Monday, a team of police arrested Babu, managing director and editor-in-chief of Ekattor TV, and Shyamal, former general secretary of Jatiya Press Club, from Mymensingh's Dhobaura upazila.

Shahriar Kabir was arrested from his Banani residence the same day.