Siddiqur placed in 7-day remand in attempted murder case

A court in Dhaka placed actor Siddiqur Rahman Siddique on a seven-day remand in a case involving the attempted murder of rickshaw driver Jabbar Ali Howlader during the July Uprising.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah passed the order on Wednesday (April 30).

Earlier Gulshan police station’s Sub-Inspector Abdus Salam produced Siddique before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand.

On Tuesday (April 29), a group of youths apprehend and assaulted Siddique on Tuesday noon as he was walking through the city's Bailey Road area. They later handed him over to police.