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Rashed Khan Menon remanded for 5 days

Special Correspondent Courts 2024-08-24, 2:28am

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A court places Workers Party leader Rashed Khan Menon on a 5-day remand in a murder case



Dhaka, Aug 23 - A Dhaka court on Friday placed Workers Party President and former lawmaker, Rashed Khan Menon, on a five-day remand in a murder case filed at Dhaka's New Market Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order after the police produced him before the court around 4pm, seeking a 10-day remand.

Earlier on Thursday night, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained Menon from the Gulshan area in the capital.

Later, he was shown arrested in a case filed with the New Market police station over the murder of a businessman named Abdul Wadud in the police station area during the recent Anti-Discrimination Students' Movement.-UNB