Former DIG Mollah Nazrul on 5-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Molla Nazrul Islam on a five-day remand in a case lodged over the attempt to murder a college-student Fahim Hossain Zubayer during the July-August mass uprising.

Dhaka’s additional chief metropolitan magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the order on Sunday (February 9).

Earlier Md Mahfuzul Haque, a sub-inspector of Gulshan police station produced the accused before the court seeking seven days remand.

On Saturday, Molla Nazrul Islam, former commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP), was detained from Bangladesh Police Academy in Sardah, Rajshahi.