A Dhaka court on Sunday denied the bail pleas filed by suspended councilor Irfan Selim, also son of Awami League leader Haji Selim, and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah in a case filed over assaulting a navy official.

Detectives arrested another associate of Irfan Selim from Tangail district early Tuesday in a case filed in connection with the assault on an official of Bangladesh Navy in the capital on Sunday night.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Monday sentenced Irfan Selim, son of Dhaka-7 MP Haji Selim, and his bodyguard Zahid to one year in jail for possessing illegal walkie-talkies and drinking liquor.

Members of Rapid action Battalion (Rab) detained Irfan Selim, son of Dhaka-7 MP Haji Selim, from his father’s residence in Old Dhaka in the city on Monday on charge of "attacking" Lieutenant Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy.