DHAKA, Dec 26, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today sent to jail former food 
minister Advocate Qamrul Islam and former Dhaka-7 lawmaker Md Solaiman Salim 
in a case lodged over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman passed the order 
as police produced the duo before the court after end of their four-day 
remand in the case and pleaded to keep them behind the bars. 

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman on December 18 
placed Qamrul and Solaiman on a four-day remand in the case.

Police, on November 18, arrested Advocate Qamrul from a house in the Uttara 
Sector-12 area while a team of Chawkbazar Police Station arrested Solaiman 
Salim from Gulshan area on November 14.

According to the case documents, BNP called a rally in the capital's Naya 
Paltan area on October 28, 2023. In response to the BNP's 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 the BNP rally 
which left Shamim Mollah killed and injured many of its leaders and 
activists.

The case was filed against 704 people including AL general secretary Obaidul 
Quader on September 24, 2024.