The investigating officer told the court that Motahar had financed efforts to resist the Student Against Discrimination movement on 5 August 2024.
File photo of CMM Court, Dhaka/Collected
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File photo of CMM Court, Dhaka/Collected
A Dhaka court today (10 November) sent Motahar Hossain — a close aide to activities-banned Awami League’s Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim — to jail after the end of his three-day remand in a murder case over the death of a garment worker during the 2024 July Uprising.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sefatullah passed the order after a hearing this afternoon, said Assistant Public Prosecutor Harunur Rashid.
Earlier in the day, Motahar was brought to the court after the end of his remand. The investigating officer, Uttara West Police Station Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam, then sought an order to keep him in jail until the investigation was completed.
Defence lawyers sought bail for Motahar, while the prosecution opposed the plea. After hearing both sides, the court ordered that he be sent to jail.
On 3 November, the court placed him on a four-day remand, followed by a fresh three-day remand on 7 November.
In the latest remand application, the investigating officer said Motahar was a close aide to Bahauddin Nasim and had provided financial support for efforts to resist the Students Against Discrimination movement on 5 August 2024.
The officer sought to keep Motahar in custody to uncover the circumstances of the killing, identify and arrest others involved, collect their names and addresses, recover weapons allegedly used in the incident and obtain further information from him.
According to the case documents, garment worker Jasim was shot in front of Dhaka Bank on Jasim Uddin Road in the capital’s Uttara area on 5 August 2024 while taking part in the movement.
He died the following day while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.
Jasim’s wife, Mosammat Farida, filed the case on 11 December 2024.
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and 203 others were named in the first information report, along with 200 to 250 unidentified people. Motahar was listed as accused No 196.
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