A Comilla court placed three people, including a leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, on a six-day remand yesterday in connection with the murder of Ahsan Habib Sumu.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Amlan Kusum Bishnu passed the order after police produced them before his court seeking a 10-day remand for interrogation.
The people who have been put on remand are Saleh Ahmed Russell, a BCL leader, Saiful and Shawkat.
Ahsan Habib Sumu, 40, the Comilla branch director of security-provider agency Guard Bangladesh and the son of late Omar Faruk, cousin of MP from Sadar constituency AKM Bahauddin Bahar, was shot to death during a BCL intra-party clash in Comilla district town on May 29.
Habibus Sayerin Shayer, the victim’s brother, filed a case against 40 BCL leaders and activists with Kotwali police station the following day.
Police arrested the trio from Anarkoli Super Market in the capital on June 6, seven days after the filing of the case.
Other accused in the case include BCL activists Shahin, Ripon, Shakil alias Chhota Shakil, Zakir, Khokan, Shakil, Shah Poran, Saiful, Jony alias Chika, Alauddin, Fahmid, Foysal, Shipu and Ashique.