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A court today (9 December) placed former state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on a three-day remand in a case lodged over the killing of Narayanganj Govt Tolaram College MBA student Monir Miah during the July-August mass uprising.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefatullah passed the order as police produced Palak before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand in the case lodged with the Shahbagh Police Station.
Palak was arrested from the capital's Nikunja Residential Area on 14 August and placed on different terms of remand in various cases filed over the crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising.
According to the case documents, Monir joined a rally in the capital's Chankharpul area on 5 August. He got shot around 12.30pm and rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.
Monir's cousin Raju Ahmed filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station on 2 October.
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