Dhaka, Nov 9 – BNP Narsinghdi unit chief Khairul Kabir Khokon, detained hours after mayor Lokman Hossain's Nov 1 assassination, has been shown arrested in two cases filed over torching a train and vandalising the dak bungalow.
Hearing on the remand petition filed by police against him is in progress in the town's Judicial Magistrate's Court, Khokon's lawyer Nazmul Kader Tito told the reporters waiting outside the court on Wednesday morning.
The 43-year-old mayor was shot dead by masked gunmen in front of the local Awami League office in the night of Nov 1. Soon after, Narsinghdi police picked up Khokon from his residence in the capital's Khilgaon area.
Showing him arrested under the Article 54 of the Bangladesh Penal Code over the killing, police had pleaded to the court for his remand on Nov 3.
Following the shootout, enraged residents of the area vandalised the local dak bunglow and blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway. Intercity train Egarosindhur Express was set on fire in Narsinghdi town on the following day during the 72-hour demonstration enforced by the ruling party's student body Bangladesh Chhatra League protesting the murder.
The cases were filed on Nov 4 by railway authorities.
Lokman's brother Kamruzzaman on Nov 3 filed a murder case against telecommunication minister Rajuddin Ahmed Raju's brother Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu and 13 others, mostly ruling Awami League members, over his brother's death.
In the wake of the murder, Narsingdi superintendent of police (SP) Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan, additional SP (Special Branch) Enamul Kabir and additional SP Bijay Basak were "withdrawn" the following day.
bdnews24.com
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