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DHAKA, Nov 18, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today showed Awami League (AL) 
organizing secretary and former lawmaker Ahmed Hossain arrested in a case 
lodged over murder of a teenager named Abdul Motalib in the capital's 
Dhanmandi area.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda passed the order as the 
police produced Hossain before the court and the prosecution pleaded to show 
him arrested in the case.

Ahmad Hossain was arrested from the capital's Banashree area on August 20 and 
was placed on a four-day remand in Nobin Talukder murder case the next day. 
He was placed on different terms of remand in other cases after that.

According to the case documents, Motalib, 14, got shot on his chest and 
throat on August 4 as he joined a anti-discrimination rally in Dhanmandi 
area. He was rushed to the hospital, where the attending doctors declared him 
dead. 

Motalib's father Abdul Matin filed the case on August 26 against 176 
including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.