Popular folk singer and former Awami League MP Momtaz Begum has been sent to jail after completing a four-day remand in a murder case filed over the killing of hawker Md Sagor during the July movement in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Minhajur Rahman issued the order on Saturday following a remand hearing.
Prior to the hearing, Mirpur model police station Sub-Inspector Monirul Islam, the investigation officer in the case, submitted a petition requesting that Momtaz be kept in jail.
The defence sought bail and cancellation of the remand, but the court rejected the bail plea and ordered that she be sent to prison.
On Monday night, Momtaz was arrested by detectives from the Dhanmondi area of the capital. The following day, the court granted a four-day remand for interrogation.
According to the case documents, hawker Md Sagor had participated in the July movement rally at Mirpur Roundabout on July 19. Around 4pm that day, he was shot and killed.
On November 27, the victim’s mother, Beauty Akter, filed a murder case at Mirpur model police station. The case named 242 accused, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
