A court on Saturday ordered to sending of former additional inspector general of police (IGP) Md Iqbal Bahar to jail in connection with hawker Shahinur Begum Murder case of Jatrabari police station.
Police produced the former additional IGP before the court of the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) with a prayer for confining him in jail till the end of the investigation into the case.
After hearing the petition, Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Jewel Rana, on behalf of the CMM, ordered that he be sent to jail custody.
Iqbal Bahar was arrested by a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of police from the city’s Bailey Road area on Friday evening.
He went on retirement from the police service in 2019 as an additional IGP (Telecom).
According to the case, Shahinur Begum, a hawker of Jatrabari Kajla area, was shot at by the accused persons on July 22 while she was supplying drinking water to the protesters of the anti-discrimination student movement.
She was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in a critical condition on that day. She succumbed to her injuries there on August 31.
Habeja Akhter, daughter of the victim, filed a case with Jatrabari police station accusing 297 people, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on November 14 last year. Iqbal Bahar was the accused number 26 in that case.
