Ex-agri minister Abdus Shahid lands in jail

A Dhaka court has sent to jail former agriculture minister Md Abdus Shahid in a case lodged over the murder of bus driver Alamgir Hossain during the student-led mass uprising, reports BSS.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Imran Ahammed passed the order on Sunday as police produced Shahid before the court after the end of his four-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars until the completion of probe. The defence, however, argued for bail. After hearing both the sides, the court sent the former agriculture minister to jail.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman on October 30 placed Md Abdus Shahid on a four-day remand.

The former agriculture minister was arrested from Uttara in the early hours of October 30.