A Dhaka court on Friday sent the former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), Atiqul Islam, to jail in a case filed with the Uttara East police station over the killing of Md Fazlul Karim on August 5.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi passed the order as police produced Atiqul before the court after the end of his three-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind bars until the end of the probe.
A court had remanded him in the case on January 22.
According to the case documents, Md Fazlul Karim joined an anti-discrimination rally at Uttara Jasim Uddin intersection on August 5.
He was shot by assailants around 4:30pm and was rushed to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries around 9:20pm.
Karim's brother, Anwar Hossain Ainal, filed the case on August 21 against 39 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Police arrested the former DNCC mayor from the capital’s Mohakhali DOHS on October 16.
He was placed on different terms of remand in cases filed over crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising.
