Menon remanded for six days

A Dhaka court has placed Workers Party President and former lawmaker as well as minister, Rashed Khan Menon, on a six-day remand in a garment worker murder case filed with Adabor thana, reports UNB.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman passed the order on Tuesday when Mintu Chandra Banik, inspector of Adabor thana and also the investigating officer of the case produced him before the court with a ten-day remand prayer.

On August 22, police arrested Menon from the capital's Gulshan area. Later, a Dhaka court placed Menon on five-day remand in a case filed for killing businessman Abdul Wadud on the following day.

According to the case statement, Rubel, a garment worker along with the locals and students brought out a procession at Ring Road area during the quota reform protest on August 5.