A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered the jail detention of Md Kawsar Mia, 19, who escaped after removing his handcuffs from the dock of a courtroom earlier this week.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Hasan Shahadat passed the order after a hearing on a case filed over his escape from police custody at Kotwali Police Station.
Sheikh Kamal Hossain of the prosecution department confirmed the development, saying no lawyer represented Kawsar during the hearing. He was not brought into the courtroom either.
Kawsar was arrested around 6am on Thursday during a police operation in the Tarakanda area of Purbadhala Police Station in Netrokona.
Later in the day, investigation officer Sub-Inspector Sufal Kumar Roy produced him before the court and sought his detention in jail.
In the petition, the investigation officer said Kawsar was being questioned and that the investigation was ongoing. Keeping him in jail was necessary in the interest of the investigation, the petition said, adding that police might seek remand later if required.
According to the case statement, Kawsar was taken from the metropolitan court lockup to the Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's First Court on Tuesday, along with another accused, to attend a hearing.
After the proceedings, two other inmates were taken back to the lockup, while Kawsar and another accused, Maidur Rahman, remained in the dock.
Constable Arafatul Islam, who was on duty, secured one end of their handcuffs to the courtroom railing and the other to their wrists.
However, when the constable went to collect documents from the court bench assistant, Kawsar managed to remove his handcuffs and flee around 11:45am.
Ripon Molla, in-charge of the metropolitan sessions court lockup, subsequently filed a case under Section 224 of the Penal Code with Kotwali Police Station over the escape.