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DHAKA, Oct 28, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today sent Mustafa Kamal Uddin, 
former senior secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, to jail in a case 
lodged over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim Mollah in the capital. 

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

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmin Akter on October 25 placed Mustafa Kamal 
Uddin on a three-day remand in the case.

Detective branch (DB) police arrested him from Lalkhan Bazar area of 
Chattogram city on October 24.

According to the case documents, BNP called a rally in the capital's Naya 
Paltan area on October 28, 2023. To counter the BNP rally, the then ruling 
Awami League (AL) convened a counter rally on the same day in the capital.

The AL men with the support of law enforcing agencies attacked a BNP rally 
which left Shamim Mollah killed and injured many of its leaders and 
activists.