A Sylhet court on Thursday placed former additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Sadeq Kawsar Dastagir on a five-day remand in connection with the killing of journalist ATM Turab during the anti-discrimination student movement. Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Momen ordered the remand while Dastagir was produced before the court. Advocate Abdur Rob, lawyer for the plaintiff, said that a seven-day remand had been sought and the court granted five days. HC summons Naogaon Public Prosecutor for ‘derogatory remarks’ about Senior Judicial Magistrate  A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested Dastagir from Sherpur district on Wednesday. Another accused in the case, Constable Ujjal, was arrested in Dhaka on November 17 and is currently in jail following a five-day remand. The murder case was filed by the deceased’s brother Abul Hasan Md Azraf on August 19. The case named 18 individuals, including former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and several high-ranking police officials, along with 200 to 250 unnamed individuals.

Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) on Tuesday asked Anjumane Hefazat-e-Islam, a Qawmi madrasah-based organisation, to postpone their ijtema — slated for November 17-18 - to avoid any conflict with the main opposition BNP’s Sylhet division rally, scheduled for November 19. Sudip Das, additional deputy commissioner of the SMP, confirmed the matter to UNB on Tuesday night. He said they asked the ijtema organisers to fix any date after November 19 as the BNP had announced their divisional mass rally earlier. Anjuman Hefazat-e-Islam called for a two-day Ijtema marking their 77th anniversary on November 17 and 18 in the city. Despite the police warning though, it has been learned that the little-known Islamist group is determined not to postpone their programme to be held in Paraichak of South Surma upazila. The organisation’s leaders including its Ameer Mufti Mawlana Muhammad Rashidur Faruk Barnobhi expressed their rigid stance of holding the prescheduled programme at the Truck Terminal of the upazila. Read more: Ahead of BNP rally, Khulna turns into a city of processions Md Shamsuddhoa, officer-in-charge of Moghlabazar police station, said they would take a decision in this regard after holding a meeting with high-ups officials.