A Dhaka court has granted a four-day remand for Awami League Joint General Secretary and former minister Dr Dipu Moni and a five-day remand for former deputy sports minister Arif Khan Joy in a case over the murder of a grocery store owner in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin issued the order after a hearing on Tuesday.
Mohammadpur police station Inspector Md Tofazzal Hossain, the investigating officer in the case, had presented them in court and requested a 10-day remand.
Dipu Moni was detained by detectives in the Baridhara DOHS area of Dhaka on Monday evening. She was shown arrested in the murder case in Mohammadpur the same night.
She has cases against her in Chandpur and Dhaka.
Joy was also apprehended that night by the Detective Branch in Dhanmondi. He was similarly shown arrested in the same murder case.
In the afternoon on July 19, during a protest in support of the quota reform movement in the Bosila area of Mohammadpur, grocery store owner Abu Sayeed was killed by police gunfire.
On August 13, a man named SM Amir Hamza filed the case with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury's court.
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former minister of road transport and bridges Obaidul Quader are also accused in the case.