A Dhaka court has placed former Food Minister Qamrul Islam on an eight-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud, report agencies.
Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman passed the order on Tuesday as police produced Qamrul before the court with a 10-day remand prayer in the case filed with the capital's New Market Police Station.
Police arrested the former minister from a house in the Uttara Sector-12 area on Monday.
Abdul Wadud was killed in the city's New Market area on July 19 last during the recent anti-discrimination student movement led mass uprising.
Wadud's relative Abdur Rahman filed the case against 130 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Anisul Huq, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Salman F Rahman and Amir Hossain Amu on August 21.