DHAKA, Oct 5, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today sent former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and Home Ministry Md Jahangir Alam to jail in a case lodged over killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. 

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifur Rahman passed the order as police produced Jahangir Alam before the court after end of his five-day remand in the case, and the investigation officer pleaded to keep him behind the bar till end of the probe.

On October 1, a court here placed Jahangir Alam on five-day remand in connection with a case filed over killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 4.
 
Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka, Belal Hossain passed the order in the case as Jahangir was produced before the court over a 10-day remand prayer following his arrest from the city’s Gulshan area in the same (Tuesday) morning.   

A 14-year-old boy Motalib was shot dead while he was taking part in the student-people mass-uprising at the capital’s Dhanmondi area on August 4 last.
 
Later,  his father Abdul Matin   filed a murder case against 176 persons including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the arrestee Jahangir Alam with Dhanmondi Police Station.