BSS
  21 Oct 2024, 19:52

ASP Jewel Rana sent to jail in Liza killing case

DHAKA, Oct 21, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today sent additional superintendant
of police (ASP) Md Jewel Rana of Diplomatic Security Division of Dhaka
Metropolitan Police to jail in a case lodged over the murder of one Liza
Akter during the anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain passed the order as police
produced him before the court after end of his four-day remand in the case
and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the completion of probe.

The court on October 18 placed him on four-day remand as police produced the
accused before the court and pleaded to place him on seven-day remand.

Police, after taking permission from the Ministry of Home Affair, took Jewel
Rana into custody on October 17 and showed him arrested in the case.

Liza, who used to work as a house maid in Ramna area, was shot by police on
July 18 as they opened fire on the agitating students and people in the area.
She died from her injuries at the hospital on July 22.

Liza's father Md Joynal Shikder filed the case on September 5 against 174,
including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.