A Dhaka court on Friday placed Arfanullah Damal, the second suspect in the murder of an Awami League politician and a female college student in Shahjahanpur, on one-day police remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Yeasmin Ara passed the order. Read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Second suspect held with gun Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives arrested Arfanullah conducting a drive in the city’s Kamalapur area on Thursday night, said Rifat Mohammad Shamim, deputy commissioner of the detective branch (Motijheel division). A gun was seized from his possession, he told UNB. A case was filed against Arfanullah under the Arms Act at the Motijheel police station today. On the night of March 24, AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital. Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing. They were all stuck in a traffic jam in the area when a biker wearing a helmet and a mask appeared from nowhere and fired at them. Read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Prime accused put on 7-day police remand The next day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder. On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case from Bogura district. The next day, a Dhaka court placed Akash on a seven-day police remand for custodial interrogation.

A Chapaianawabganj court on Thursday sentenced an Indian national to life term imprisonment in a case filed under the Arms Act. Additional District and Sessions Judge Robiul Islam passed the order. The convict is Milan Singha,37, son of Ratan Singha of Sukdebpur village in Malda district in India’s West Bengal. Read: Murder for protesting stalking: 6 get life term in Rajshahi On January 31,2018, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained Milan Singha with 7 guns, 74 rounds of ammunition and 14 magazines from Kapitola area in Shibganj upazila in the district, said Anjuman Ara Begum, Additional Public Prosecutor of the court. Rab Sub-Inspector Golam Sarwar lodged a case at the Shibganj police station in this regard. On March 1, 2018, the Investigation officer in the case submitted a chargesheet to the court accusing  Milan Singha.

Four separate cases were filed against Irfan Selim, the suspended Councilor of Ward no 30 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), and his bodyguard Zahid under the Arms Act and Narcotics Control Act.

Three people arrested in connection with an explosion inside the Pallabi Police Station that left four cops injured, were put on 14-day remand by a Dhaka court on Thursday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged arms trader and recovered three foreign made pistols, five magazines and 46 ammunition from Khagrachhary-Panchhary road in Khagrachhary district.

A court in Chapainawabganj on Thursday sentenced two people to 22 years’ imprisonment in two cases filed over the recovery of arms and drugs in Shibganj upazila in 2013.

A court here on Wednesday accepted a chargesheet against expelled organising secretary of Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan in a case filed under the Arms Act.