DHAKA, Sept 8, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today placed Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President and former information minister Hasanul Haque Inu on five-day remand in a case filed over killing Ideal College student Khalid Hasan Saifullah during the anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order as police produced him before the court and pleaded for a seven-day remand for proper investigation.

On September 3, Inu was remanded for five-day in truck driver Md Sujon murder case.

Inu was detained from his residence at Uttara on August 26. The next day, he was produced before the court and remanded for seven days in businessman Abdul Wadud murder case.

Saifullah was killed on July 18 at Lalbagh while protesting under the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
 
Kamrul Hasan, father of the deceased, filed the case with Lalbagh Police Station the next day, against 52 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.