Ex-minister Shajahan Khan on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court has placed arrested Awami League presidium member and former minister Shajahan Khan on seven-day remand in a murder case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court passed the order on Friday (September 6) afternoon.

Earlier, he was taken to the CMM court on Friday afternoon. At that time, police pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand. After the hearing, the court placed him on a seven-day remand in the case filed over the murder of a Abdul Motaleb, a teenage boy at Jhigatola Bus Stand area, in the capital.

After midnight on Thursday (September 5), Shajahan Khan was arrested by joint forces from a residence at Dhanmondi in the capital.

Shajahan Khan was elected as a member of parliament from the Madaripur-2 constituency for the eighth consecutive term. He is also the executive president of the Bangladesh Workers Federation.

He was first elected as an MP from the Madaripur-2 constituency as an independent candidate in 1986.