A Rangpur court on Sunday placed Shahriar Ahmed Sakin, a student of Rangpur Medical College, on a one-day remand in a case filed for “instigating” HSC student Nuzhat Jahan to commit suicide, who died after jumping from the rooftop of a restaurant in Rangpur city.

Rangpur Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dr Muhammad Rashed Hossain passed the order when police produced Sakin before his court with a three-day remand prayer in the case.

The court also rejected the bail petition filed by his lawyer.

On June 22, Nuzhat Jahan, a Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) candidate, died after falling from the rooftop of the Northview Hotel in Rangpur city.

Her father Nazrul Islam filed a case at Kotwali Police Station against Sakin, a private teacher of the college girl, on charge of instigating his daughter to commit suicide.

Later, police arrested the medical student in this connection.

Advocate Abu Haider Md Abdul Mubin, a lawyer of the plaintiff, said Sakin and Nuzhat had a mobile conversation for 50 minutes 12 seconds around 3:30am on June 16.

Over the past three months, they spoke on their mobile phones 118 times and exchanged text messages, he said, adding that a teacher is not expected to have such lengthy late-night conversations with a female student.