DHAKA, Sept 12, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today placed additional superintendent of police (ASP) Abdullahel Kafi on five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Sheikh Ashabul Yamin in Savar area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Julhash Uddin passed the order as police produced Kafi before the court and pleaded to show him arrested in the case and place him on seven-day remand.

Earlier police produced Kafi before Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court after the end of his eight-day remand in a case lodged with Hazaribagh Police Station.

Kafi was arrested from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on September 2 and was placed on eight-day remand in the case lodged with Hazaribagh Police Station, the next day.

Yamin's father Abdullah Al Kabir filed the case over the killing of his son on August 25, against 49 including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Students and people were demonstrating in support of the anti-discrimination student movement on July 18 in Savar. Police and Awami League goons attacked the peaceful protest. Yamin was detained by police. They dragged him to the side of an armoured car and shot him from point blank range.

Scenes of shooting Yamin, putting his almost lifeless body on the police's armoured car, dropping it hard on the street and throwing it from one side of the road divider to another, shook the whole nation.

Yamin was rushed to Savar Enam Medical College Hospital in critical condition. Attending doctors there, declared him dead.